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 the light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the bitter in soul,

“I wish that it would please God to crush me,
That He would let loose His hand and cut me off.

“I am disgusted with my life and loathe it!
I will give free expression to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of living because of the daughters of Heth [these insolent wives of Esau]. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

But he himself traveled a day’s journey into the wilderness, and he came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked [God] that he might die. He said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

Therefore now, O Lord, just take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Let me alone

“Would He not let my few days alone,
Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer

“[O God] turn your gaze from him so that he may rest,
Until he fulfills his day [on earth] like a hired man.

“Remove Your plague from me;
I am wasting away because of the conflict and opposition of Your hand.

My days

Men of low degree are only a breath (emptiness), and men of [high] rank are a lie (delusion).
In the balances they go up [because they have no measurable weight or value];
They are together lighter than a breath.

Therefore He consumed their days like a breath [in emptiness and futility]
And their years in sudden terror.

Man is like a mere breath;
His days are like a shadow that passes away.

For there are many other words that increase futility. What then is the advantage for a man?