Job 10:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Cease then, and let me alone. — According to another reading, “Let him cease, and let me alone.” In reading this reply of Job’s, one cannot but feel that it moves upon the very verge of blasphemy, and is only redeemed therefrom by its pervading reverence and deep undertone of faith. Job never gives up his faith in God, though, like Jacob, he wrestles with Him in the dark, and the issue shows that God is not displeased with such an unburdening of the soul that keeps close to the straight line of truth, which is, after all, one of the many manifestations of God.

Job 10:20

20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,