Job 7:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.”
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“I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.”
King James Version · Public Domain“I loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“I have wasted away--not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days <FI>are<Fi> vanity.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 7:16 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 27:46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
- 1 Kings 19:4while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
- Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- Job 6:9that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
- Job 9:21Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
- Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 10:20Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
- Job 14:6look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
- Psalms 39:6Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
- Psalms 39:10Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
- Psalms 39:13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
- Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Psalms 78:33So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
- Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- Ecclesiastes 2:17So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 6:11For the more words, the more futility—and how does that profit anyone?
- Jonah 4:3And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
- Jonah 4:8As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
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