Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may smile again
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

Turn Your angry gaze from me
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."

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!

Context Readings

The Fleeting Nature Of Life

12 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner like all my fathers.
13 Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may smile again
Before I depart and am no more.”


Cross References

Job 10:20-21

“Would He not let my few days alone?
Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer

Job 14:10-12

“But man dies and lies prostrate.
Man expires, and where is he?

Genesis 5:24

Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

Genesis 42:36

Their father Jacob said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you would take Benjamin; all these things are against me.”

Job 7:19

Will You never turn Your gaze away from me,
Nor let me alone until I swallow my spittle?

Job 14:5-6

“Since his days are determined,
The number of his months is with You;
And his limits You have set so that he cannot pass.

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