Job 7:16
I have wasted away—I do not live for all time. Cease from me, for my days [are] vanity.
Literal 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
15And my soul chooses strangling, || Death rather than my bones.
17What [is] man that You magnify him? And that You set Your heart to him?
Cross References
Genesis 27:46And Rebekah says to Isaac, “I have been disgusted with my life because of the presence of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these—from the daughters of the land—why do I live?”
Job 3:20Why does He give light to the miserable, and life to the bitter soul?
Job 9:21I am perfect; I do not know my soul, I despise my life.
Job 10:20Are my days not few? Cease then, and put from me, || And I brighten up a little,
Psalms 39:6Only, each habitually walks in an image, || Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, || He heaps up and does not know who gathers them.
Psalms 39:13Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
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 →