Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}.
New American Standard Bible
Death rather than my
King James Version
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Holman Bible
death rather than life in this body.
International Standard Version
I would rather die by strangulation than continue living.
A Conservative Version
so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than [these] my bones.
American Standard Version
So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.
Amplified
So that I would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my
Bible in Basic English
So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.
Darby Translation
So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones.
Julia Smith Translation
And my soul will choose strangling; death rather than my bones.
King James 2000
So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.
Modern King James verseion
so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my life.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that my soul wisheth rather to be strangled, and my bones to be dead.
NET Bible
so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.
New Heart English Bible
so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
The Emphasized Bible
So that my soul chooseth strangling, Death, rather than these my bones!
Webster
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
World English Bible
so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
Youngs Literal Translation
And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.
Interlinear
Nephesh
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 7:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Don'T Forget!
14 then you terrify me with dreams, and with visions you terrify me. 15 So my inner self will choose strangling-- death more than my {existence}. 16 I loathe [my life]; I would not live forever; depart from me, for my days [are] a breath.
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Cross References
2 Samuel 17:23
When Ahithophel saw that his advice [was] not followed, he saddled the donkey, and he set out and went up to his house in his city. {After he set his house in order}, he hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his ancestors.
Matthew 27:5
And throwing the silver coins into the temple he departed. And he went away [and] hanged himself.