Psalm 39:13 {38:14}
Good News Translation
Leave me alone so that I may have some happiness before I go away and am no more.

New Revised Standard Version
Turn your gaze away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more.”

Contemporary English Version
Stop being angry with me and let me smile again before I am dead and gone."

New American Bible
Turn your gaze from me, that I may smile before I depart to be no more.

Douay-Rheims Bible
O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.

spare

Job 10:20,21 Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little: . . .

Job 14:5,6 The days of man are short, and the number of his months is with thee: thou hast appointed his bounds which cannot be passed. . . .

be no

Genesis 5:24 And he walked with God, and was seen no more: because God took him.

Genesis 42:36 Their father Jacob said: You have made me to be without children: Joseph is not living, Simeon is kept in bonds, and Benjamin you will take away: all these evils are fallen upon me.

Job 14:10-12 But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he? . . .

Context
I Will Watch My Ways
12Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be no silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were. 13O forgive me, that I may be refreshed, before I go hence, and be no more.
Cross References
Job 7:19
How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle?

Job 10:20
Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:

Job 10:21
Before I go and return no more, to a land that is dark and covered with the mist of death:

Job 14:6
Depart a little from him, that he may rest until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.

Psalm 102:24
Call me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are unto generation and generation.

Isaiah 38:16
O Lord, if man's life be such, and the life of my spirit be in such things as these, thou shalt correct me, and make me to live.

Psalm 39:12
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