Job 7:16
I abhorre it, I shall not liue alway: spare me then, for my dayes are but vanitie.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
In Context
15Therefore my soule chuseth rather to be strangled and to die, then to be in my bones.
17What is man, that thou doest magnifie him, and that thou settest thine heart vpon him?
Cross References
Genesis 27:46Also Rebekah said to Izhak, I am weary of my life, for the daughters of Heth. If Iaakob take a wife of the daughters of Heth like these of the daughters of the lande, what auaileth it me to liue?
Job 3:20Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?
Job 9:21Though I were perfite, yet I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my life.
Job 10:20Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,
Psalms 39:6Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.
Psalms 39:13Stay thine anger from me, that I may recouer my strength, before I go hence and be 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 →