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 who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,

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

My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. 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, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

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 no better than my

Therefore now, O LORD, I beseech thee, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.

Let me alone

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

look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

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

My days

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than vanity.

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.

Since there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?