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

"Wherefore is the light given to him that is in misery? And life unto them that have heavy hearts?

That he would begin and smite me: that he would let his hand go, and hew me down.

It grieveth my soul to live. Nevertheless, now will I put forth my words: I will speak out of the very heaviness of my soul,

And Rebekah spake to Isaac, "I am weary of my life, for fear of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such one as these are, or of the daughters of the land, what lust should I have to live?"

And he went a day's journey into the wilderness, and when he was come sat down under a Juniper tree, and desired for his soul, that he might die, and said, "It is now enough, O LORD, take my soul; for I am not better than my fathers."

Now therefore take my life from me, for I had better die than live."

Let me alone

Shall not my short life come so soon to an end? O hold thee from me, let me alone, that I may ease myself a little

Go from him, that he may rest until his day come: which he looketh for, like as a hireling doth.

Turn thy plagues away from me, for I am consumed through the fear of thy hand.

My days

As for men they are but vanity; the children of men are deceitful. Upon the weights they are altogether lighter than vanity itself.

Therefore their days were consumed in vanity, and suddenly their years were gone.

Man is like a thing of naught; his time passeth away like a shadow.

Many things there be that increase vanity, and what hath a man else?