Job 7:16
I loathe [my life]; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.
American Standard 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 chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones.
17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest 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 take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
Job 3:20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;
Job 9:21I am perfect; I regard not 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 walketh in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Psalms 39:13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more. Psalm 40 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
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 →