Job 7:16
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I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
In other translations
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Hebrew words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
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- 1 Kings 19:4But 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.while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
- Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 14:6Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
- Job 9:21Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
- Job 10:20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
- Job 6:9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
- Jonah 4:8And 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.As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
- Psalm 39:13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
- Psalm 62:9Surely 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.Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Psalm 39:10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
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