Job 7:16
I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Majority Standard Bible
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 I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
17What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,
Cross References
Genesis 27:46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
Job 9:21Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
Job 10:20Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
Psalms 39:6Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
Psalms 39:13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart 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 →