Job 7:16

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Summary

Job 7:16

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

I loathe it

Let me alone

Job 10:20

Job 14:6

Psalm 39:10

My days

Bible References

I loathe it

Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

Even that it would please God to destroy me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

My soul is cut off in my life; therefore, I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these who are of the daughters of this land, why should I want to live?

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree; and desiring to die, he said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am not better than my fathers.

Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for I would rather die than live.

Let me alone

Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

If thou should leave him, he will cease to exist; until then, he shall desire, as a hireling, his day.

Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

My days

Surely the sons of Adam are vanity, and the sons of nobles are a lie; to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity and their years in tribulation.

Man is like unto vanity; his days are as a shadow that passes away.

Certainly the many words multiply vanity, what more does man have?