Job 7:16 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁶ I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ I loathe it; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath (futility).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ I loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ I reject life; I don’t want to live long; leave me alone, for my days are empty.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ I despair; by no means will I live any longer. Spare me, for my days are nothing.

Job 7:16 Cross References

Genesis 27:46

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall 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 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 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.

Job 6:9

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

Job 7:15

so that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

Job 7:7

O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

Job 9:21

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

Psalm 144:4

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

Psalm 39:10

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

Psalm 39:13

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

Psalm 39:6

Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

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 78:39

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Jeremiah 8:3

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts.

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 did arise, 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.