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

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

"My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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, of the daughters of the land, what good will 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 Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers."

Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."

Let me alone

Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

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

My days

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?