Job 10:20

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

“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And come to an end without hope.

“For we are only of yesterday and know nothing,
Because our days on earth are as a shadow.

“Now my days are swifter than a runner;
They flee away, they see no good.

“Man, who is born of woman,
Is short-lived and full of turmoil.

“Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight;
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath.

Selah.

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

“What is man that You magnify him,
And that You are concerned about him,

Remove Your hand from me,

And let not the dread of You terrify me.

“Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may smile again
Before I depart and am no more.”