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 who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,

Even that it would please God to destroy me; that He would loose His hand and cut me off!

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on my self; 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, like these of the daughters of the land, what good is my life to me?

And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he begged for his life, that he might die. And he said, It is enough. O Jehovah, take away my life. For I am no better than my fathers.

And now, O Jehovah, I beseech You, take my life from me. For better is my death than my life.

Let me alone

Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

look away from him, so that he may rest until he shall finish his day, as a hireling.

Remove Your stroke away from me; I am destroyed by the blow of Your hand.

My days

Surely the sons of men are vanity; the sons of men are a lie; they go up in the scales; they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Therefore He ended their days in vanity and their years in trouble.

Man is like vanity; his days are like a shadow that passes away.

For there are many things that increase vanity, and what is man the better?