Job 7:16

The Scriptures 2009

I have wasted away, I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.

Cross References

Genesis 27:46

And Riḇqah said to Yitsḥaq, “I am disgusted with my life because of the daughters of Ḥĕth. If Ya‛aqoḇ takes a wife from the daughters of Ḥĕth, like these who are the daughters of the land, what is my life 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 prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, יהוה, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”

Job 10:1

“My being has grown weary of life. I let loose my complaint, I speak in the bitterness of my being.

Job 10:20

Are not my days few? Then cease! Leave me alone, so that I brighten up a little,

Job 14:6

Look away from him and let him rest, till like a hired man he enjoys his day.

Job 6:9

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

Job 7:15

so that my being chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

Job 7:7

Remember that my life is a breath! My eye is never again to see good.

Job 9:21

Am I perfect? Do I not know my own being? I despise my life!

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath, His days like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:10

Turn aside Your stroke from me; I am overcome by the blow of Your hand.”

Psalm 39:13

Look away from me, That I might brighten up, Before I go away and am no more.

Psalm 39:6

As but a shadow each one walks; They busy themselves, only in vain; He heaps up wealth, But knows not who gathers them.

Psalm 62:9

Sons of Aḏam are but a breath, Sons of men are a lie; If weighed in the scales, They are altogether lighter than breath.

Psalm 78:33

So He ended their days in a breath, And their years in trouble.

Psalm 78:39

For He remembered that they were but flesh, A passing breath that does not return.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

And I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was evil on me, for all is futile and feeding on wind.

Jeremiah 8:3

“And death shall be preferred to life by all the rest of those who remain of this evil people, who remain in all the places where I have driven them,” declares יהוה of hosts.

Jonah 4:3

“And now, O יהוה, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live!”

Jonah 4:8

And it came to be when the sun came up, that Elohim appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun struck on Yonah’s head, so that he grew faint, and asked for his life to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”