Job 7:16
I loathe [my life]. I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
In Context
15so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than [these] my bones.
17What is man, that thou should magnify him, and that thou should set thy mind upon him,
Cross References
Genesis 27:46And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
Job 3:20Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
Job 9:21Though I were perfect, I do not regard myself. I despise my life.
Job 10:20Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little
Psalms 39:6Surely every man walks in a shadow. Surely they are disquieted in vain. He heaps up, and knows not who shall gather them.
Psalms 39:13O spare me, that I may recover strength before I go from here, and be no more.
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 →