Job 7:15
so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than [these] my bones.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
In Context
14Then thou scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions,
16I loathe [my life]. I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:23And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and got home to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself. And he died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.
Job 3:22who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they can find the grave?
Ecclesiastes 2:17So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous to me. For all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Jonah 4:8And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live
Matthew Henry on Job 7:8-17
7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. 8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more. 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more. 11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. 12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou… Read the whole commentary →