Job 7:16

Tree of Life Version

I despise it; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a vapor.

Cross References

Genesis 27:46

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth like these women, from the daughters of the land what is 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 bush. He prayed that he might die. “It’s too much!” he said. “Now, Adonai, take my life! For I’m no better than my fathers.”

Job 10:1

“I loathe my own life; I will give full vent to my complaint; I will speak out of the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10:20

Are not my days few? Then stop, leave me alone so I might have a little joy,

Job 14:6

Look away from him and let him alone, until he fulfills his time like a hired laborer.

Job 6:9

that God would be willing to crush me, to release His hand, and cut me off!

Job 7:15

so that my soul prefers strangulation, and my bones death.

Job 7:7

Remember, my life is but a breath; my eyes will not see goodness again!

Job 9:21

“I am guiltless. I have no concern for myself. I despise my life.

Psalm 144:4

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

Psalm 39:10

I am speechless, not opening my mouth —for You have done it.

Psalm 39:13

Hear my prayer, Adonai, and listen to my cry— do not keep silent at my tears. For with You I am an outsider, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Psalm 39:6

Behold, You made my days mere hand-breadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Surely all humanity is but vapor. Selah

Psalm 62:9

Trust in Him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart in His presence. God is our refuge. Selah

Psalm 78:33

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

Psalm 78:39

For He remembered that they are but flesh, a passing breath that never returns.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

And so I hated life, because the work done under the sun was grievous to me. All is but vapor and chasing after the wind.

Jeremiah 8:3

So death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family that remains in all the places to which I have driven them.” It is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Jonah 4:3

So please, Adonai, take my soul from me—because better is my death than my life.”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God prepared a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint. So he implored that his soul would die, saying, “My death would be better than my life!”