Job 7:16

Easy To Read Version

I hate my life—I give up.\par I don’t want to live forever.\par Leave me alone!\par My life means nothing!\par

Cross References

Genesis 27:46

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “Your son Esau married Hittite women. I am very upset about these women. Why? Because they are not our people. I’ll just die if Jacob marries one of these women too!”

1 Kings 19:4

Then Elijah walked for a whole day into the desert. Elijah sat down under a bush. He asked to die. Elijah said, “I have had enough, Lord! Let me die. I am no better than my ancestors. [210] ”

Job 10:1

I hate my own life.\par So I will complain freely.\par My soul is very bitter,\par so now I will speak.\par

Job 10:20

My life is almost finished.\par So leave me alone!\par Let me enjoy the little time I have left,\par

Job 14:6

So God, stop watching us.\par Leave us alone.\par Let us enjoy our hard life\par until our time is finished.\par

Job 6:9

I wish God would crush me,\par just go ahead and kill me!\par

Job 7:15

So I prefer to be choked to death\par than to live.\par

Job 7:7

God, remember, my life is only a breath.\par I will never see anything good again.\par

Job 9:21

I am innocent.\par But I don’t know what to think.\par I hate my own life.\par

Psalm 144:4

A person’s life is like a puff of air.\par A person’s life is like a passing shadow.\par

Psalm 39:10

But God, stop punishing me.\par You will destroy me if you don’t stop!\par

Psalm 39:13

Lord, leave me alone {\cf2\super [242]} \par and let me be happy\par before I am dead and gone.\par

Psalm 39:6

Our life is like an image \{in a mirror\}. {\cf2\super [239]} \par We rush through life collecting things,\par but we don’t know who will get them\par \{after we die\}.\par

Psalm 62:9

People can’t really help.\par You can’t trust them to really help.\par Compared to God,\par they are like nothing,\par like a gentle puff of air!\par

Psalm 78:33

So God ended their worthless lives\par with some disaster.\par

Psalm 78:39

God remembered they were only people.\par People are like a wind that blows,\par and then it is gone.\par

Ecclesiastes 2:17

This made me hate life. It made me very sad to think that everything in this life {\cf2\super [10]} is useless, like trying to catch the wind. {\cf2\super [11]}

Jeremiah 8:3

“I will force the people of Judah to leave their homes and their land. The people will be taken away to foreign lands. Some of the people of Judah that were not killed in the war will wish that they had been killed.” This message is from the Lord.

Jonah 4:3

So now I ask you, Lord, please kill me. It is better for me to die than to live!”

Jonah 4:8

After the sun was high in the sky, God caused a hot east wind to blow. The sun became very hot on Jonah’s head and Jonah became very, very weak. Jonah asked God to let him die. Jonah said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”