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 giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?

That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!

My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

And Rebekah saith unto Isaac, 'I have been disgusted with my life because of the presence of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these -- from the daughters of the land -- why do I live?'

and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, 'Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I am not better than my fathers.'

And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better is my death than my life.'

Let me alone

Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,

Look away from off him that he may cease, Till he enjoy as an hireling his day.

Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.

My days

Only -- vanity are the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity are lighter.

And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble.

Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by.

For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage is to man?