Job 7:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.

Cross References

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 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 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.

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 7:15

So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

Job 7:7

O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.

Job 9:21

I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

Psalm 39:10

No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

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.

Psalm 39:6

Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

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.

Psalm 78:39

So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.

Jeremiah 8:3

And death will be desired more than life by the rest of this evil family who are still living in all the places where I have sent them away, says the Lord of armies.

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.