Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.
New American Standard Bible
Leave me alone,
King James Version
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Holman Bible
Leave me alone,
International Standard Version
I hate the thought of living forever! Leave me alone, because my days are pointless."
A Conservative Version
I loathe [my life]. I would not live always. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.
American Standard Version
I loathe my life ; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Amplified
“I waste away and loathe my life; I will not live forever.
Let me alone, for my days are but a breath [futile and without substance].
Darby Translation
I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath.
Julia Smith Translation
I melted away; I shall not live forever: desist from me, for my days are vanity.
King James 2000
I loathe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I loathe [my life]; I would not live forever; depart from me, for my days [are] a breath.
Modern King James verseion
I despise them; I will not live always; let me alone, for my days are vanity.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I can see no remedy. I shall live no more. O spare me then, for my days are but vain.
NET Bible
I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!
New Heart English Bible
I loathe my life. I do not want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
The Emphasized Bible
I am wasted away, Not, to times age-abiding, can I live, Let me alone, for, a breath, are my days.
Webster
I lothe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
World English Bible
I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Youngs Literal Translation
I have wasted away -- not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days are vanity.
Interlinear
Chayah
`owlam
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 7:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Don'T Forget!
15 So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains. 16 I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath. 17 What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,
Cross References
Job 10:1
My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.
Job 6:9
If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!
Job 9:21
I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.
Job 10:20
Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,
Job 14:6
Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.
Psalm 39:13
Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.
Genesis 27:46
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, My life is a weariness to me because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob takes a wife from among the daughters of Heth, such as these, the women of this land, of what use will my life be to me?
1 Kings 19:4
While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
Job 3:20-22
Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
Psalm 39:10
No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.
Psalm 62:9
Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.
Psalm 78:33
So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.
Ecclesiastes 6:11-12
There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?
Jonah 4:3
So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.
Jonah 4:8
Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.