Job 7:16

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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

Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul? -

That it would please GOD to crush me, That he would set free his hand, and cut me off!

My soul doth loathe my life, - I let loose my complaint, I speak, in the bitterness of my soul.

So then Rebekah said unto Isaac, I am disgusted with my life because of the daughters of Heth, - Should Jacob be taking a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these, of the daughters of the land, wherefore could I wish for life?

But, he himself, went into the wilderness a day's journey, and came and sat down under a certain shrub, - and asked for his life, that he might die, and said - Enough, now, O Yahweh! take away my life, for, no better, am, I, than, my fathers.

Now, therefore, O Yahweh, take, I pray thee, my life from me, - for it were better for me, to die, than, to live.

Let me alone

Are not my days, few? - then forbear, and set me aside, that I may brighten up for a little;

Look sway from him, that he may rest, Till he shall pay off, as a hireling, his day.

Remove from off me thy stroke, Because of the hostility of thy hand, am, I, consumed.

My days

Surely, vanity, are men of low degree, Deception, men of high degree, - In the balances, they go up, They, are made of vanity, altogether.

So he ended, in a breath, their days, And their years, in a sudden terror!

The earthborn, resembleth, a vapour, his days, are like a passing shadow.

Seeing there are things in abundance which make vanity abound, what profit hath man?