Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here, and be no more.
New American Standard Bible
Before I depart and am no more.”
King James Version
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Holman Bible
so that I may be cheered up
before I die and am gone.”
International Standard Version
Stop looking at me with chastisement, so I can smile again, before I depart and am no more. To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.
American Standard Version
Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.
Amplified
“O look away from me, that I may smile and again know joy
Before I depart and am no more.”
Bible in Basic English
Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.
Darby Translation
Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more.
Julia Smith Translation
Look away from me, and I shall be cheerful, before I shall go and I not be.
King James 2000
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and be no more.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look [away] from me that I may be cheerful, before I depart and I am no more.
Modern King James verseion
Look away from me, and I will smile before I go away and be no more.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O spare me a little that I may recover my strength, before I go hence, and be no more seen."
NET Bible
Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.
New Heart English Bible
Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more."
The Emphasized Bible
Look away from me that I may brighten up, Ere yet I depart and am no more.
Webster
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
World English Bible
Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
Youngs Literal Translation
Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 39:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Fleeting Nature Of Life
12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry. Keep not silent at my tears, for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 13 O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here, and be no more.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 10:20-21
Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little
Job 14:10-12
But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Genesis 5:24
And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said to them, Ye have bereaved me of my sons. Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.
Job 7:19
How long will thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Job 14:5-6
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, and thou have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,