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

You have put me in the lowest part of the Pit,
in the darkest places, in the 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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