20 Are my days not few? Stop it![a]
Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little
21 before I go to a land of darkness and gloom,(A)
never to return.
22 It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,
gloomy and chaotic,
where even the light is like[b] the darkness.”

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Footnotes

  1. 10:20 Alt Hb tradition reads Will he not leave my few days alone?
  2. 10:22 Lit chaotic, and shines as

20 Are not my few days(A) almost over?(B)
    Turn away from me(C) so I can have a moment’s joy(D)
21 before I go to the place of no return,(E)
    to the land of gloom and utter darkness,(F)
22 to the land of deepest night,
    of utter darkness(G) and disorder,
    where even the light is like darkness.”(H)

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You have put me in the lowest part of the Pit,
in the darkest places, in the depths.(A)

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You have put me in the lowest pit,
    in the darkest depths.(A)

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For the enemy has pursued me,
crushing me to the ground,
making me live in darkness
like those long dead.(A)

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The enemy pursues me,
    he crushes me to the ground;
he makes me dwell in the darkness(A)
    like those long dead.(B)

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