Psalm 39:13 “Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depa…”

Psalm 39:13

Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

World English Bible

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”

American Standard Version

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.

Geneva Bible 1599

Stay thine anger from me, that I may recouer my strength, before I go hence and be not.

Darby Translation

Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more.

Young's Literal Translation

Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

Bible in Basic English

Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.

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Cross references

“spare”

Job 10:20 Job 10:21 Job 14:5 Job 14:6

Job 10:20 · BSB

Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,

Job 10:21 · BSB

before I go—never to return— to a land of darkness and gloom,

Job 14:5 · BSB

Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,

Job 14:6 · BSB

look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

“be no”

Job 14:10–12 Genesis 5:24 Genesis 42:36

Job 14:10–12 · BSB

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

Genesis 5:24 · BSB

Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.

Genesis 42:36 · BSB

Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”

Also

Job 7:19

Job 7:19 · BSB

Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.

Read Psalm 39