Psalm 39:13 Parallel Translations
NASB: "Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may smile again Before I depart and am no more." (NASB ©1995)
GWT: Look away from me so that I may smile again before I go away and am no more.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
ASV: Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.
BBE: Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.
DBY: Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more.
ERV: O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
JPS: Look away from me, that I may take comfort, before I go hence, and be no more.'
WBS: O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
WEB: Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more."
YLT: Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
Psalm 39:13 Cross References
XREF:Job 7:19 "Will You never turn Your gaze away from me, Nor let me alone until I swallow my spittle?

Job 10:20 "Would He not let my few days alone? Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer

Job 10:21 Before I go-- and I shall not return-- To the land of darkness and deep shadow,

Job 14:6 "Turn Your gaze from him that he may rest, Until he fulfills his day like a hired man.

Psalm 102:24 I say, "O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days, Your years are throughout all generations. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, {k} before I go hence, and be no more.
(k) For his sorrow caused him to think that God would destroy him completely, by which we see how hard it is for the saints to keep a measure in their words, when death and despair assails them.
WES: 39:13 No more - Among the living, or in this world.
MHC: 39:7-13 There is no solid satisfaction to be had in the creature; but it is to be found in the Lord, and in communion with him; to him we should be driven by our disappointments. If the world be nothing but vanity, may God deliver us from having or seeking our portion in it. When creature-confidences fail, it is our comfort that we have a God to go to, a God to trust in. We may see a good God doing all, and ordering all events concerning us; and a good man, for that reason, says nothing against it. He desires the pardoning of his sin, and the preventing of his shame. We must both watch and pray against sin. When under the correcting hand of the Lord, we must look to God himself for relief, not to any other. Our ways and our doings bring us into trouble, and we are beaten with a rod of our own making. What a poor thing is beauty! and what fools are those that are proud of it, when it will certainly, and may quickly, be consumed! The body of man is as a garment to the soul. In this garment sin has lodged a moth, which wears away, first the beauty, then the strength, and finally the substance of its parts. Whoever has watched the progress of a lingering distemper, or the work of time alone, in the human frame, will feel at once the force of this comparison, and that, surely every man is vanity. Afflictions are sent to stir up prayer. If they have that effect, we may hope that God will hear our prayer. The believer expects weariness and ill treatment on his way to heaven; but he shall not stay here long : walking with God by faith, he goes forward on his journey, not diverted from his course, nor cast down by the difficulties he meets. How blessed it is to sit loose from things here below, that while going home to our Father's house, we may use the world as not abusing it! May we always look for that city, whose Builder and Maker is God.
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