Job 7:16
I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.
17What is a man that thou shouldst magnify him? or why dost thou set thy heart upon him?
Cross References
Genesis 27:46And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I choose not to live.
Job 3:20Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?
Job 9:21Although I should be simple, even this my soul shall be ignorant of, and I shall be weary of my life.
Job 10:20Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:
Psalms 39:6Behold thou hast made my days measurable : and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity : every man living.
Psalms 39:13Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication : give ear to my tears. Be not silent : for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.
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 →