Job 7:15
So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
In Context
14Thou wilt frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions.
16I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:23But Achitophel seeing that his counsel was not followed, saddled his ass, and arose and went home to his house and to his city, and putting his house in order, hanged himself, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
Job 3:22And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave.
Ecclesiastes 2:17And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.
Jonah 4:8And when the sun was risen, the Lord commanded a hot and burning wind: and the sun beat upon the head of Jonas, and he broiled with the heat: and he desired for his soul 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 →