Psalm 39:13
New International Version
Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again before I depart and am no more.”

New Living Translation
Leave me alone so I can smile again before I am gone and exist no more.

English Standard Version
Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!”

Berean Standard Bible
Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

King James Bible
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

New King James Version
Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength, Before I go away and am no more.”

New American Standard Bible
“Turn Your eyes away from me, that I may become cheerful again Before I depart and am no more.”

NASB 1995
“Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may smile again Before I depart and am no more.”

NASB 1977
“Turn Thy gaze away from me, that I may smile again, Before I depart and am no more.”

Legacy Standard Bible
Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may smile again Before I go and am no more.”

Amplified Bible
“O look away from me, that I may smile and again know joy Before I depart and am no more.”

Christian Standard Bible
Turn your angry gaze from me so that I may be cheered up before I die and am gone.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Turn Your angry gaze from me so that I may be cheered up before I die and am gone.”

American Standard Version
Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Save me, and I shall rest, lest I depart and I shall be no more.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Spare me, that I may be refreshed, before I depart, and be no more.

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

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

English Revised Version
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Look away from me so that I may smile again before I go away and am no more.

Good News Translation
Leave me alone so that I may have some happiness before I go away and am no more.

International Standard Version
Stop looking at me with chastisement, so I can smile again, before I depart and am no more.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Look away from me, that I may take comfort, Before I go hence, and be no more.'

Literal Standard Version
Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

Majority Standard Bible
Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

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

NET Bible
Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.

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

New Heart English Bible
Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more."

Webster's Bible Translation
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

World English Bible
Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”

Young's Literal Translation
Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

Additional Translations ...
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Context
I Will Watch My Ways
12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers. 13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

Cross References
Job 7:19
Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?

Job 10:20
Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,

Job 10:21
before I go--never to return--to a land of darkness and gloom,

Job 14:6
look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

Psalm 102:24
I say: "O my God, do not take me in the midst of my days! Your years go on through all generations.

Isaiah 38:16
O Lord, by such things men live, and in all of them my spirit finds life. You have restored me to health and have let me live.


Treasury of Scripture

O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

spare

Job 10:20,21
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, …

Job 14:5,6
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; …

be no

Genesis 5:24
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Genesis 42:36
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.

Job 14:10-12
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? …

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Psalm 39
1. David's care of his thoughts
4. The consideration of the brevity and vanity of life
7. the reverence of God's judgments
10. and prayer, are his bridles of impatience














(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.) . . .

Verse 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.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Turn Your gaze
הָשַׁ֣ע (hā·ša‘)
Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 8159: To gaze at, about, to inspect, consider, compassionate, be nonplussed, bewildered

away from me,
מִמֶּ֣נִּי (mim·men·nî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of

that I may again be cheered
וְאַבְלִ֑יגָה (wə·’aḇ·lî·ḡāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's 1082: To break off, loose, desist, invade

before
בְּטֶ֖רֶם (bə·ṭe·rem)
Preposition-b | Adverb
Strong's 2962: Non-occurrence, not yet, before

I depart
אֵלֵ֣ךְ (’ê·lêḵ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

and am no more.”
וְאֵינֶֽנִּי׃ (wə·’ê·nen·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb | first person common singular
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle


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