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Job 10:20 — King James Version← Study notes

Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,


Job 10:20Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 10:2010 words
HebrewMeaning
הֲ/לֹאhălōʾ
¿ notparticleH3808
before · or else · except · ig ···
מְעַ֣טməʿaṭ
fewnounH4592
very) few(-er · -est) · lightly · little ···
יָמַ֣/יyāmay
are days mynounH3117
always · chronicals · continually · daily ···
יחדלyḥdl
ceaseverbH2308
end · fall · forbear · forsake ···
וַ/חֲדָ֑לwaḥădāl
ceaseconjH2308
end · fall · forbear · forsake ···
ישיתyšyt
applyverbH7896
appoint · array · bring · consider ···
וְ/שִׁ֥יתwəšiyt
applyconjH7896
appoint · array · bring · consider ···
מִ֝מֶּ֗/נִּיmimeniy
from mepronH4480
after · among · at · because of ···
וְ/אַבְלִ֥יגָהwəʾabəliygāh
so I may be cheerfulconjH1082
strength
מְּעָֽטməʿāṭ
a littleadvH4592
very) few(-er · -est) · lightly · little ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 10:20

Will not the small number of my days be finished in a short time? He shews himself to live with good heed and circumspection, who, in considering the shortness of the present life does not look to the furtherance but to the ending of it, so as to gather from the end, that all is nought that delights while it is passing. For hence it is said by Solomon, But if a man live many years and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the time of darkness, and the days that shall be…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 9 §91
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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