Job 7:16

God's Word

I hate my life; I do not want to live forever. Leave me alone because my days are so brief.

Cross References

Genesis 27:46

Rebekah said to Isaac, “I can’t stand Hittite women! If Jacob marries a Hittite woman like one of those from around here, I might as well die.”

1 Kings 19:4

Then he traveled through the wilderness for a day. He sat down under a broom plant and wanted to die. “I’ve had enough now, Lord,” he said. “Take my life! I’m no better than my ancestors.”

Job 10:1

“I hate my life. I will freely express my complaint. I will speak as bitterly as I feel.

Job 10:20

“ ‘Isn’t my life short enough? So stop ⌞this⌟, and leave me alone. Let me smile a little

Job 14:6

Look away from him, and he will cease to be. Meanwhile, he loves life as a laborer loves work.

Job 6:9

that God would ⌞finally⌟ be willing to crush me, that he would reach out to cut me off.

Job 7:15

My throat would rather be choked. My body  would prefer death ⌞to these dreams⌟.

Job 7:7

Remember, my life is only a breath, and never again will my eyes see anything good.

Job 9:21

If I am a man of integrity, I have no way of knowing it. I hate my life!

Psalm 144:4

Humans are like a breath of air. Their life span is like a fleeting shadow.

Psalm 39:10

Remove the sickness you laid upon me. My life is over because you struck me with your hand.

Psalm 39:13

Look away from me so that I may smile again before I go away and am no more.

Psalm 39:6

Each person who walks around is like a shadow. They are busy for no reason. They accumulate riches without knowing who will get them.”

Psalm 62:9

Common people are only a whisper in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a whisper in the wind.

Psalm 78:33

He brought their days to an end like a whisper in the wind. He brought their years to an end in terror.

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were only flesh and blood, a breeze that blows and does not return.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I came to hate life because everything done under the sun seemed wrong to me. Everything was pointless. ⌞It was like⌟ trying to catch the wind.

Jeremiah 8:3

“Then the few who remain from these wicked people will want to die rather than live where I will scatter them,” declares the Lord of Armies.

Jonah 4:3

So now, Lord, take my life. I’d rather be dead than alive.”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God made a hot east wind blow. The sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he was about to faint. He wanted to die. So he said, “I’d rather be dead than alive.”