Job 10:20-22

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Are my days not few? Stop it!^(a)
Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little

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before I go to a land of darkness and gloom,^(A)
never to return.

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It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,
gloomy and chaotic,
where even the light is like^(b) the darkness.”

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

b. Job 10:22: Lit chaotic, and shines as

A. Job 10:21: Job 3:5; Job 12:22; Job 28:3