Job 7:16
I loathe it; I shall not live alway; let me alone; for my days are vanity.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 heart 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 3:20Wherewith is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul —
Job 9:21I am innocent — 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 39:6(39-7) Surely man walketh as a mere semblance; surely for vanity they are in turmoil; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Psalms 39:13(39-14) Look away from me, that I may take comfort, before I go hence, and be no more.'
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 →