Job 7:16

I loathe it; I cannot live for ever: let me alone; for my days are but nought.

Leeser Tanakh

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 would choose strangling, death rather than these limbs of mine.

17What is the mortal, that thou shouldst make him great? and that thou shouldst direct thy heart toward him?

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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 from the daughters of Heth, such as these, from the daughters of the land, what good will life do me?

Job 3:20Wherefore giveth He now light to the labor-laden, and life unto the bitter in soul?

Job 9:21I am innocent; I will not have regard for myself: I will despise my life.

Job 10:20Lo! my days are but few: cease, then, withdraw from me [thy hand], that I may recover my cheerfulness a little.

Psalms 39:6(39:7) As nothing but a shadowy image doth man walk about, yea, for vanity only do all make a noise: he heapeth up his gains, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Psalms 39:13(39:14) Leave off from me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and am 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 →

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