Job 7:15
So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
In Context
14Then you send dreams to me, and visions of fear;
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:23Now when Ahithophel saw that his suggestion was not acted on, he got his ass ready, and went back to his house, to the town where he came from, and having put his house in order, he put himself to death by hanging; so he came to his end and was put in the resting-place of his father.
Job 3:22Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;
Ecclesiastes 2:17So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Jonah 4:8Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.
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 →