Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

My days few

Job 7:6

“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And are spent without hope.
Job 8:9

“For we are only of yesterday and know nothing,
Because our days on earth are [like] a shadow [just a breath or a vapor].
Job 9:25

“Now my days are swifter than a runner;
They vanish, they see no good.
Job 14:1
“Man, who is born of a woman,
Is short-lived and full of turmoil.
Psalm 39:5

“Behold, You have made my days as [short as] hand widths,
And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight.
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]! Selah.
Psalm 103:15

As for man, his days are like grass;
Like a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

Cease

Job 7:17

“What is man that You [should] magnify him [and think him important]?
And that You are concerned about him?
Job 13:21

Withdraw Your hand from me and remove this bodily suffering,
And let not the dread of You terrify me.
Psalm 39:13

“O look away from me, that I may smile and again know joy
Before I depart and am no more.”