Job 7:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁵ so that I prefer strangling   – death rather than life in this body.  ,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than my life.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ So that I would choose strangling and death rather than these my bones.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ I would choose strangling and death instead of my bones.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ so that, because of these things, my soul would choose hanging, and my bones, death.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ So that my soul rather chooseth hanging: and my bones death.

Job 7:15 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel realised that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his home town. He set his house in order and hanged himself.  So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.

Job 3:21

who wait for death,  but it does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasure,

Job 3:22

who are filled with much joy and are glad when they reach the grave?

Job 7:14

then you frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions,

Job 7:16

I give up! I will not live for ever. Leave me alone,  for my days are a breath.

Job 9:21

Though I am blameless, I no longer care about myself; I renounce my life.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

Therefore, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Jeremiah 8:3

Death will be chosen over life  by all the survivors of this evil family, those who remain wherever I have banished them.’  This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.

Jonah 4:3

And now, Lord, take my life from me,  for it is better for me to die than to live.’

Jonah 4:8

As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind.  The sun beat down on Jonah’s head  so much that he almost fainted, and he wanted to die. He said, ‘It’s better for me to die than to live.’

Matthew 27:5

So he threw the silver into the temple  and departed. Then he went and hanged himself.

Revelation 9:6

In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.