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

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.

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!”

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.”

Psalm 39:13

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

Job 14:6

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

Job 10:20

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

Job 9:21

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

Job 6:9

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

Jonah 4:3

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

Psalm 144:4

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

Psalm 78:33

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

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 39:10

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

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?”

Job 7:7

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

Job 7:15

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

Psalm 78:39

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

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.

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.

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.