Job 7:16 · KJV
“I loathe {it}; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days {are} vanity.”
— Job 7:16
So that my soul chooseth strangling, {and} death rather than my life. {life: Heb. bones}
What {is} man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
Job 7 — Context
Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
15So that my soul chooseth strangling, {and} death rather than my life. {life: Heb. bones}
16I loathe {it}; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days {are} vanity.
17What {is} man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
18And {that} thou shouldest visit him every morning, {and} try him every moment?
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I {am} not better than my fathers. {for himself: Heb. for his life}
Job 10:1
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. {weary...: or, cut off while I live}
Job 9:21
{Though} I {were} perfect, {yet} would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Job 14:6
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. {rest: Heb. cease}
Job 6:9
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Psalms 62:9
Surely men of low degree {are} vanity, {and} men of high degree {are} a lie: to be laid in the balance, they {are} altogether {lighter} than vanity. {altogether: or, alike}
Job 10:20
{Are} not my days few? cease {then, and} let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Jonah 4:8
And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, {It is} better for me to die than to live. {vehement: or, silent}