Job 7:16
For I shall not live for ever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life is vain.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
In Context
15You will separate life from my spirit; and yet keep my bones from death.
17For what is man, that you have magnified him? or that you give heed to him?
Cross References
Genesis 27:46And Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of the sons of Chet; if Jacob shall take a wife of the daughters of this land, therefore should I live?
Job 3:20For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to those souls which are in griefs?
Job 9:21For even if I have sinned, I know it not in my soul: but my life is taken away.
Job 10:20Is not the time of my life short? suffer me to rest a little,
Psalms 39:6+ 39:6 Heb 10:5-6 Sacrifice and offering you would not; but a body have you prepared me: whole burnt offering and sacrifice for sin you did not require. 1
Psalms 39:13Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, draw near to help me. 1
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 →