Parallel Verses
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.
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].
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.
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!
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 my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones. 16 I loathe my life. I do not want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath. 17 What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,
Cross References
Job 10:1
"My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 6:9
even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off.
Job 9:21
I am blameless. I do not regard myself. I despise my life.
Job 10:20
Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
Job 14:6
Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
Psalm 39:13
Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more."
Genesis 27:46
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?"
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough. Now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers."
Job 3:20-22
"Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
Psalm 39:10
Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
Psalm 62:9
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.
Psalm 78:33
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
Ecclesiastes 6:11-12
For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
Jonah 4:8
It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."