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,

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

"I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women.If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?"

But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers."

Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live."

Let me alone

Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer

look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.

Remove your stroke from me; I am spent by the hostility of your hand.

My days

Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.

So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

The more words, the more vanity, and what is the advantage to man?