Job 7:16

New Century Version

I hate my life; I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, because my days have no meaning.

Cross References

Genesis 27:46

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of these Hittite women here in this land, I want to die.”

1 Kings 19:4

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

Job 10:1

“I hate my life, so I will complain without holding back; I will speak because I am so unhappy.

Job 10:20

The few days of my life are almost over. Leave me alone so I can have a moment of joy.

Job 14:6

So look away from us and leave us alone until we put in our time like a laborer.

Job 6:9

How I wish God would crush me and reach out his hand to destroy me.

Job 7:15

My throat prefers to be choked; my bones welcome death.

Job 7:7

Remember, God, that my life is only a breath. My eyes will never see happy times again.

Job 9:21

“I am innocent, but I don’t care about myself. I hate my own life.

Psalm 144:4

People are like a breath; their lives are like passing shadows.

Psalm 39:10

Quit punishing me; your beating is about to kill me.

Psalm 39:13

Leave me alone so I can be happy before I leave and am no more.”

Psalm 39:6

People are like shadows moving about. All their work is for nothing; they collect things but don’t know who will get them.

Psalm 62:9

The least of people are only a breath, and even the greatest are just a lie. On the scales, they weigh nothing; together they are only a breath.

Psalm 78:33

So he ended their days without meaning and their years in terror.

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were only human, like a wind that blows and does not come back.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life. It made me sad to think that everything here on earth is useless, like chasing the wind.

Jeremiah 8:3

I will force the people of Judah to leave their homes and their land. Those of this evil family who are not dead will wish they were, says the Lord All-Powerful.’

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

As the sun rose higher in the sky, God sent a very hot east wind to blow, and the sun became so hot on Jonah’s head that he became very weak and wished he were dead. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”