Job 7:16

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

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 an 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 shew: 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.