Job 7:16
I am wasted away, Not, to times age-abiding, can I live, Let me alone, for, a breath, are my days.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 my soul chooseth strangling, Death, rather than [these] my bones!
17What is a mortal, that thou shouldst nurture him? Or that thou shouldst fix upon him thy mind?
Cross References
Genesis 27:46So then Rebekah said unto Isaac, I am disgusted with my life because of the daughters of Heth,—Should Jacob be taking a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these, of the daughters of the land, wherefore could I wish for life?
Job 3:20Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul?—
Job 9:21I blameless? I should not know my own soul, I should despise my own life!
Job 10:20Are not my days, few?—then forbear, and set me aside, that I may brighten up for a little;
Psalms 39:6Surely as a shadow, doth every man wander, Surely in vain, do they bustle about, he heapeth things up, and knoweth not who shall gather them in.
Psalms 39:13Look away from me that I may brighten up, Ere yet 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 →