Parallel Verses

Webster

I lothe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

New American Standard Bible

“I waste away; I will not live forever.
Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

King James Version

I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

Holman Bible

I give up! I will not live forever.
Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.

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!

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.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
I loathe
מאס 
Ma'ac 
Usage: 76

it I would not live
חיה 
Chayah 
Usage: 264

עלם עולם 
`owlam 
Usage: 438

for my days
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Don'T Forget!

15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. 16 I lothe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity. 17 What is man, that thou shouldst magnify him? and that thou shouldst set thy heart upon him?

Cross References

Job 10:1

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 6:9

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

Job 9:21

Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

Job 10:20

Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Job 14:6

Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

Psalm 39:13

O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

Genesis 27:46

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob shall take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these who are 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 juniper-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 not better than my fathers.

Job 3:20-22

Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

Psalm 39:10

Remove thy stroke away from me; I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

Psalm 62:9

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Psalm 78:33

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Ecclesiastes 6:11-12

Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

Jonah 4:3

Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

Jonah 4:8

And it came to pass, when the sun rose that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

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