Job 7:16

New International Version

I despise my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone; my days have no meaning.

Cross References

Genesis 27:46

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”

1 Kings 19:4

while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”

Job 10:1

“I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10:20

Are not my few days almost over? Turn away from me so I can have a moment’s joy

Job 14:6

So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.

Job 6:9

that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut off my life!

Job 7:15

so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine.

Job 7:7

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

Job 9:21

“Although I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

Psalm 144:4

They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.

Psalm 39:10

Remove your scourge from me; I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

Psalm 39:13

Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again before I depart and am no more.”

Psalm 39:6

“Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom; in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth without knowing whose it will finally be.

Psalm 62:9

Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.

Psalm 78:33

So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Jeremiah 8:3

Wherever I banish them, all the survivors of this evil nation will prefer death to life, declares the Lord Almighty.’

Jonah 4:3

Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die, and said, “It would be better for me to die than to live.”