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 one burdened with grief,
and life to those whose existence is bitter,

that He would decide to crush me,
to unleash His power and cut me off!

I am disgusted with my life.
I will express my complaint
and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

So Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m sick of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob marries a Hittite woman like one of them, what good is my life?”

but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. He said, “I have had enough! Lord, take my life, for I’m no better than my fathers.”

And now, Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Let me alone

Are my days not few? Stop it!
Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little

look away from him and let him rest
so that he can enjoy his day like a hired hand.

Remove Your torment from me;
I fade away because of the force of Your hand.

My days

Men are only a vapor;
exalted men, an illusion.
Weighed in the scales, they go up;
together they are less than a vapor.

He made their days end in futility,
their years in sudden disaster.

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

For when there are many words, they increase futility. What is the advantage for man?