Verse 16

I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 10:1 : 1 My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.
  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!
  • Job 9:21 : 21 I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.
  • Job 10:20 : 20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,
  • Job 14:6 : 6 Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.
  • Ps 39:13 : 13 Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.
  • Ps 78:33 : 33 So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
  • Eccl 6:11-12 : 11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them? 12 Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?
  • Jonah 4:3 : 3 So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.
  • Gen 27:46 : 46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, My life is a weariness to me because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob takes a wife from among the daughters of Heth, such as these, the women of this land, of what use will my life be to me?
  • Ps 39:10 : 10 No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.
  • Job 3:20-22 : 20 Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul; 21 To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth; 22 Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;