Psalms Chapter 39 verse 13 Holy Bible
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.
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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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Look away from me, and let me recover strength, before I go hence and be no more.
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O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
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Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
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Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go away, and be no more."
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Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 13. - O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. The Psalmist, no longer anxious for death, but still expecting it, requests of God, in conclusion, a breathing-space, a short time of refreshment and rest, before he is called on to leave the earth and "be no more ;" i.e. bring his present state of existence to an end. Nothing is to be gathered from the expression used as to his expectation or non-expectation of a future life.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) Recover strength.--Better, Let me become cheerful, i.e., look up with a glad look once more on my face, as the angry look fades from the Divine countenance.Before.--Literally, before I go, and am not. All the words and phrases of this last verse occur in the Book of Job. (See Job 7:8; Job 7:19; Job 7:21; Job 14:6; Job 10:20-21.) . . .
