¹³ Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more. Psalm 40 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

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

²¹ Before I go whence I shall not return, `Even' to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

¹⁰ But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

¹¹ `As' the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up;

¹² So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

²⁴ and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

³⁶ And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.

¹⁹ How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

⁵ Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

⁶ Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.