'Away' in the Bible

“As a cloud vanishes and is gone,So he who goes down to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) does not come up.

“Will You never turn Your gaze away from me [it plagues me],Nor let me alone until I swallow my spittle?

“Why then do You not pardon my transgressionAnd take away my sin and guilt?For now I will lie down in the dust;And You will seek me [diligently], but I will not be.”

“Behold, God will not reject a man of integrity,Nor will He strengthen or support evildoers.

“Behold, He snatches away; who can restrain or turn Him back?Who will say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’

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

“They pass by like the [swift] boats made of reeds,Like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.

“Let Him take His rod away from me,And let not the dread and fear of Him terrify me.

If sin is in your hand, put it far away [from you],And do not let wrongdoing dwell in your tents;

“For you would forget your trouble;You would remember it as waters that have passed by.

“He makes [great and scheming] counselors walk barefootAnd makes fools of judges.

“He makes priests walk barefoot,And He overturns men firmly seated and secure.

“He deprives the trusted ones of speechAnd takes away the discernment and discretion of the aged.

“He makes nations great, and He destroys them;He enlarges nations, and leads them away [captive].

“He removes intelligence and understanding from the leaders of the people of the earthAnd makes them wander and move blindly in a pathless waste.

While I waste away like a rotten thing,Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Water wears away the stones,Its floods and torrents wash away the soil of the earth,So You [O Lord] destroy the hope of man.

“You prevail forever against him and overpower him, and he passes on;You change his appearance and send him away [from the presence of the living].

“Indeed, you are doing away with fear,And you are diminishing meditation before God.

“Why does your heart carry you away [allowing you to be controlled by emotion]?And why do your eyes flash [in anger or contempt],

“He will not escape from darkness [fleeing disaster];The flame [of God’s wrath] will wither his branch,And by the blast of His mouth he will go away.

“It will be fulfilled while he still lives,And his branch will not be green [but shall wither away].

“But now God has exhausted me.You [O Lord] have destroyed all my family and my household.

“My eye has grown dim (unexpressive) because of grief,And all my [body’s] members are [wasted away] like a shadow.

Whom I, even I, will see for myself,And my eyes will see Him and not another!My heart faints within me.

“He flies away like a dream and cannot be found;Yes, he is chased away like a vision of the night.

“For he has oppressed and neglected the poor;He has violently taken away houses which he did not build.

“The produce and increase of his house will depart [with the victors];His possessions will be dragged away in the day of God’s wrath.

“Are they like straw before the wind,And like chaff that the storm steals and carries away?

“That evil men are [now] reserved for the day of disaster and destruction,They will be led away on the day of [God’s] wrath?

“You have sent widows away empty-handed,And the arms (strength) of the fatherless have been broken.

Men who were snatched away before their time,Whose foundations were poured out like a river?

“If you return to the Almighty [and submit and humble yourself before Him], you will be built up [and restored];If you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,

“Some remove the landmarks;They [violently] seize and pasture flocks [appropriating land and flocks openly].

“They drive away the donkeys of the orphans;They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

“They are insignificant on the surface of the water;Their portion is cursed on the earth;They do not turn toward the vineyards.

“As God lives, who has taken away my right and denied me justice,And the Almighty, who has caused bitterness and grief for my soul,

“Far be it from me that I should admit you are right [in your accusations against me];Until I die, I will not remove my integrity from me.

“For what is the hope of the godless, even though he has gained [in this world],When God takes his life?

“Terrors overtake him like a [suddenly rising] flood;A windstorm steals him away in the night.

“He breaks open (mine) shafts far away from where people live,[In places] forgotten by the [human] foot;They dangle [in the mines] and hang away from men.

“On my right the [rabble] brood rises;They push my feet away, and they build up their ways of destruction against me [like an advancing army].

“Terrors are turned upon me;They chase away my honor and reputation like the wind,And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

Then let my shoulder fall away from its socket,And my arm be broken off at the elbow.

“For I do not know how to flatter, [in an appropriate way, and I fear that],My Maker would soon take me away.

“His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,And his bones which were not seen now stick out.

“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous [and innocent],But God has taken away my right;

“In a moment they die, even at midnightThe people are shaken and pass away,And the powerful are taken away without a [human] hand.

The wicked [those who live in disobedience to God’s law] are not so,But they are like the chaff [worthless and without substance] which the wind blows away.

Have mercy on me and be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am weak (faint, frail);Heal me, O Lord, for my bones are dismayed and anguished.

So that my enemy will not tear me like a lion,Dragging me away while there is no one to rescue [me].

For all His ordinances were before me,And I did not put away His statutes from me.

Do not sweep my soul away with sinners,Nor [sweep away] my life with men of bloodshed,

Do not hide Your face from me,Do not turn Your servant away in anger;You have been my help;Do not abandon me nor leave me,O God of my salvation!

Do not drag me away with the wickedAnd with those who do evil,Who speak peace with their neighbors,While malice and mischief are in their hearts.

For my life is spent with sorrowAnd my years with sighing;My strength has failed because of my iniquity,And even my body has wasted away.

When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted awayThrough my groaning all the day long.

All my bones will say, “Lord, who is like You,Who rescues the afflicted from him who is too strong for him [to resist alone],And the afflicted and the needy from him who robs him?”

Do not let the foot of the proud [person] overtake me,And do not let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

But the wicked (ungodly) will perish,And the enemies of the Lord will be like the glory of the pastures and like the fat of lambs [that is consumed in smoke],They vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

Yet he passed away, and lo, he was no more;I sought him, but he could not be found.

I was mute and silent [before my enemies],I refrained even from good,And my distress grew worse.

“Remove Your plague from me;I am wasting away because of the conflict and opposition of Your hand.

“With rebukes You discipline man for sin;You consume like a moth what is precious to him;Surely every man is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]. Selah.

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

I have not concealed Your righteousness within my heart;I have proclaimed Your faithfulness and Your salvation.I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great assembly.

And when one comes to see me, he speaks empty words,While his heart gathers malicious gossip [against me];When he goes away, he tells it [everywhere].

For, lo, the kings assembled themselves,They [came and] passed by together.

For when he dies he will carry nothing away;His glory will not descend after him.

Do not cast me away from Your presenceAnd do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

Every one of them has turned aside and fallen away;Together they have become filthy and corrupt;There is no one who does good, no, not even one.

And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!I would fly away and be at rest.

“I would wander far away,I would lodge in the [peace of the] wilderness. Selah.

Let them flow away like water that runs off;When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.

Let them be as a snail which melts away (secretes slime) as it goes along,Like the miscarriage of a woman which never sees the sun.

Before your cooking pots can feel the fire of thorns [burning under them as fuel],He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning ones alike.

So they will be caused to stumble;Their own tongue is against them;All who gaze at them will shake the head [in scorn].

Wickedness and guilt prevail against me;Yet as for our transgressions,You forgive them [removing them from Your sight].

Let the peoples praise You, O God;Let all the peoples praise You.

Let the peoples praise You, O God;Let all the peoples praise You.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;As wax melts before the fire,So let the wicked and guilty perish before [the presence of] God.

You have ascended on high, You have led away captive Your captives;You have received gifts among men,Even from the rebellious also, that the Lord God may dwell there.

Do not cast me off nor send me away in the time of old age;Do not abandon me when my strength fails and I am weak.

Your way, O God, is holy [far from sin and guilt].What god is great like our God?

But He, the source of compassion and lovingkindness, forgave their wickedness and did not destroy them;Many times He restrained His angerAnd did not stir up all His wrath.

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name;Rescue us, forgive us our sins for Your name’s sake.

You have forgiven the wickedness of Your people;You have covered all their sin. Selah.

You have withdrawn all Your wrath,You have turned away from Your burning anger.

For You, O Lord, are good, and ready to forgive [our sins, sending them away, completely letting them go forever and ever];And abundant in lovingkindness and overflowing in mercy to all those who call upon You.

Cast away [from the living] and abandoned among the dead,Like the slain who lie in a [nameless] grave,Whom You no longer remember,And they are cut off from Your hand.

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—

For we have been consumed by Your angerAnd by Your wrath we have been terrified.

For all our days pass away in Your wrath;We have finished our years like a whispered sigh.

The days of our life are seventy years—Or even, if because of strength, eighty years;Yet their pride [in additional years] is only labor and sorrow,For it is soon gone and we fly away.

For my days have vanished in smoke,And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.

Because of Your indignation and Your wrath,For You have lifted me up and thrown me away.

I said, “O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days;Your years are [eternal] throughout all generations.

“Even they will perish, but You endure;Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment.Like clothing You will change them and they shall be changed.

At Your rebuke they fled;At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.

You hide Your face, they are dismayed;You take away their breath, they dieAnd return to their dust.