Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Look away from me that I may brighten up, Ere yet I depart and am 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.
A Conservative Version
O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here, and be no more.
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."
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 Yahweh, And, unto my cry for help, give ear, At my tears, do not be silent, - For, a sojourner, am, I, with thee, A stranger, like all my fathers. 13 Look away from me that I may brighten up, Ere yet I depart and am no more.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 10:20-21
Are not my days, few? - then forbear, and set me aside, that I may brighten up for a little;
Job 14:10-12
Yet, man, dieth, and is prostrate, Yea the son of earth doth cease to breathe, and where is he?
Genesis 5:24
and Enoch walked with God, - and was not for God had taken him.
Genesis 42:36
And Jacob their father said unto them, Me, have ye bereaved, - Joseph, is not, and, Simeon, is not, and Benjamin, ye would take! Against me, have happened all these things.
Job 7:19
How long wilt thou not look away from me? Wilt thou not let me alone, till I can swallow my spittle?
Job 14:5-6
If determined am his days, the number of his months, is with thee, Fixed times for him, thou hast appointed and he cannot go beyond.