Job 7:16 “I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my day…”

Job 7:16

I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

World English Bible

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

American Standard Version

I loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

Geneva Bible 1599

I abhorre it, I shall not liue alway: spare me then, for my dayes are but vanitie.

Darby Translation

I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath.

Young's Literal Translation

I have wasted away — not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days [are] vanity.

Bible in Basic English

I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.

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Cross references

“I loathe it”

Job 10:1 1 Kings 19:4 Job 6:9 Jonah 4:8 Job 3:20–22 Genesis 27:46

Job 10:1 · BSB

“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

1 Kings 19:4 · BSB

while he himself went 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 6:9 · BSB

that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!

Jonah 4:8 · BSB

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.”

Job 3:20–22 · BSB

Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

Genesis 27:46 · BSB

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”

“let me alone”

Job 14:6 Job 10:20 Psalm 39:13 Psalm 39:10

Job 14:6 · BSB

look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

Job 10:20 · BSB

Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,

Psalm 39:13 · BSB

Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

Psalm 39:10 · BSB

Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.

“my days”

Psalm 62:9 Psalm 78:33 Psalm 144:4 Ecclesiastes 6:11 Ecclesiastes 6:12

Psalm 62:9 · BSB

Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

Psalm 78:33 · BSB

So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

Psalm 144:4 · BSB

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Ecclesiastes 6:11 · BSB

For the more words, the more futility—and how does that profit anyone?

Ecclesiastes 6:12 · BSB

For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?

Also

Job 9:21

Job 9:21 · BSB

Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

17What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,

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