Job 7:16
I loathe my life; I would not wish to always be alive; 1 let me alone for my days are useless. 1
Unlocked Literal 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 choose strangling 1 and death rather than preserving these bones of mine. 1
17What is man that you should pay attention to him, 1 that you should set your mind on him, 1
Cross References
Genesis 27:46Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes one of the daughters of Heth as a wife, like these women, some of the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”
Job 3:20Why is light given to him who is in misery? 1 Why is life given to the one who is bitter in soul, 1
Job 9:21I am blameless, but I do not care any more about myself; 1 I despise my own life. 1
Job 10:20Are not my days only a few? Stop then, 1 let me alone, so that I may have a little rest 1
Psalms 39:6Surely every man walks about like a shadow. 1 Surely everyone hurries about 1 to accumulate riches although they do not know who will receive them. 1
Psalms 39:13Turn your gaze from me so that I may smile again 1 before I die.”
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 →