Job 7:16

New English Translation

I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!

Cross References

Genesis 27:46

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am deeply depressed because of these daughters of Heth. If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!”

1 Kings 19:4

while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the Lord to take his life: “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”

Job 10:1

“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10:20

Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

Job 14:6

Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.

Job 6:9

And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.

Job 7:15

so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.

Job 7:7

Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

Job 9:21

I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.

Psalm 144:4

People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

Psalm 39:10

Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!

Psalm 39:13

Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.

Psalm 39:6

Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”

Psalm 62:9

Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

Psalm 78:33

So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I loathed life because what happens on earth seems awful to me; for all the benefits of wisdom are futile – like chasing the wind.

Jeremiah 8:3

However, I will leave some of these wicked people alive and banish them to other places. But wherever these people who survive may go, they will wish they had died rather than lived,” says the Lord who rules over all.

Jonah 4:3

So now, Lord, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun began to shine, God sent a hot east wind. So the sun beat down on Jonah’s head, and he grew faint. So he despaired of life, and said, “I would rather die than live!”