16 I give up! I will not live forever.
Leave me alone,(A) for my days are a breath.[a]

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  1. Job 7:16 Or are futile

16 I despise my life;(A) I would not live forever.(B)
    Let me alone;(C) my days have no meaning.(D)

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20 Are my days not few? Stop it![a]
Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little

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  1. Job 10:20 Alt Hb tradition reads Will He not leave my few days alone?

20 Are not my few days(A) almost over?(B)
    Turn away from me(C) so I can have a moment’s joy(D)

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13 Turn Your angry gaze from me
so that I may be cheered up
before I die and am gone.”(A)

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13 Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again
    before I depart and am no more.”(A)

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