Psalm 39:13
New Living Translation
13 Leave me alone so I can smile again
before I am gone and exist no more.
Job 14:10-12
New Living Translation
10 “But when people die, their strength is gone.
They breathe their last, and then where are they?
11 As water evaporates from a lake
and a river disappears in drought,
12 people are laid to rest and do not rise again.
Until the heavens are no more, they will not wake up
nor be roused from their sleep.
Job 14:5-6
New Living Translation
5 You have decided the length of our lives.
You know how many months we will live,
and we are not given a minute longer.
6 So leave us alone and let us rest!
We are like hired hands, so let us finish our work in peace.
Job 10:20-21
New Living Translation
20 I have only a few days left, so leave me alone,
that I may have a moment of comfort
21 before I leave—never to return—
for the land of darkness and utter gloom.
Job 7:19
New Living Translation
19 Why won’t you leave me alone,
at least long enough for me to swallow!
Genesis 42:36
New Living Translation
36 Jacob exclaimed, “You are robbing me of my children! Joseph is gone! Simeon is gone! And now you want to take Benjamin, too. Everything is going against me!”
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Genesis 5:24
New Living Translation
24 walking in close fellowship with God. Then one day he disappeared, because God took him.
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