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 does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,

And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.

"I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am deeply depressed because of these daughters of Heth. If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!"

while he went a day's journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the Lord to take his life: "I've had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I'm no better than my ancestors."

So now, Lord, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!"

Let me alone

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

Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.

Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!

My days

Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.

People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

The more one argues with words, the less he accomplishes. How does that benefit him?