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Job 7:16

King James 2000

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

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And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these who are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

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.

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

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

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

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

So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.

O remember that my life is a breath: my eye shall no more see good.

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

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

Remove your scourge away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

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

Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are in turmoil in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.

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

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

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

Therefore I hated life; because the work that is done under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and like grasping the wind.

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the rest of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places where I have driven them, says the LORD of hosts.

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

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, so 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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