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

Therefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

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

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; 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 who are 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 not better than my fathers.

Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech you, 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,

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

Remove your scourge away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

My days

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: if laid on the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

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