Job 7:16

New King James Version

I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone, For my days are but a breath.

Cross References

Genesis 27:46

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, like these who are the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”

Job 10:1

“My soul loathes my life; I will give free course to my complaint, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10:20

Are not my days few? Cease! Leave me alone, that I may take a little comfort,

Job 14:6

Look away from him that he may rest, Till like a hired man he finishes his day.

Job 6:9

That it would please God to crush me, That He would loose His hand and cut me off!

Job 7:15

So that my soul chooses strangling And death rather than my body.

Job 7:7

Oh, remember that my life is a breath! My eye will never again see good.

Job 9:21

“I am blameless, yet I do not know myself; I despise my life.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath; His days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:10

Remove Your plague from me; I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.

Psalm 39:13

Remove Your gaze from me, that I may regain strength, Before I go away and am no more.”

Psalm 39:6

Surely every man walks about like a shadow; Surely they busy themselves in vain; He heaps up riches, And does not know who will gather them.

Psalm 62:9

Surely men of low degree are a vapor, Men of high degree are a lie; If they are weighed on the scales, They are altogether lighter than vapor.

Psalm 78:33

Therefore their days He consumed in futility, And their years in fear.

Psalm 78:39

For He remembered that they were but flesh, A breath that passes away and does not come again.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind.

Jeremiah 8:3

Then death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says the Lord of hosts.

Jonah 4:3

Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live!”

Jonah 4:8

And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he grew faint. Then he wished death for himself, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”