Job 7:16
I despair; by no means will I live any longer. Spare me, for my days are nothing.
Catholic Public Domain 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, because of these things, my soul would choose hanging, and my bones, death.
17What is man, that you should praise him? Or why do you place your heart near him?
Cross References
Genesis 27:46And Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob accepts a wife from the stock of this land, I would not be willing to live.”
Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to those who are in bitterness of soul,
Job 9:21And if I now became simple, my soul would be ignorant even of this, and my life would weary me.
Job 10:20Will not my few days be completed soon? Release me, therefore, so that I may lament my sorrows a little,
Psalms 39:6You have accomplished your many wonders, O Lord my God, and there is no one similar to you in your thoughts. I have announced and I have spoken: they are multiplied beyond number.
Psalms 39:13For evils without number have surrounded me. My iniquities have taken hold of me, and I was not able to see. They have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. And my heart has forsaken me.
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 →