Job 7:16
I have wasted away — not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days [are] vanity.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
In Context
15And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.
17What [is] man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?
Cross References
Genesis 27:46And Rebekah saith unto Isaac, 'I have been disgusted with my life because of the presence of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these — from the daughters of the land — why do I live?'
Job 3:20Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?
Job 9:21Perfect I am! — I know not my soul, I despise my life.
Job 10:20Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,
Psalms 39:6Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, [in] vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.
Psalms 39:13Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am 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 →