Job 7:16

The English Standar Version

I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.

Cross References

Genesis 27:46

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women.[4] If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women 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 asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers."

Job 10:1

"I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10:20

Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer

Job 14:6

look away from him and leave him alone,[1] that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.

Job 6:9

that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

Job 7:15

so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.

Job 7:7

"Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.

Job 9:21

I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.

Psalm 144:4

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

Psalm 39:10

Remove your stroke from me; I am spent by the hostility of your hand.

Psalm 39:13

Look away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more!"

Psalm 39:6

Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothing[2] they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!

Psalm 62:9

Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.

Psalm 78:33

So he made their days vanish like[3] a breath,[4] and their years in terror.

Psalm 78:39

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Jeremiah 8:3

Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, declares 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

When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."