Job 7:16

American Standard Version (1901)

I loathe [my life] ; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 10:1 : 1 My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper-tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O Jehovah, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
  • Job 9:21 : 21 I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.
  • Job 10:20 : 20 Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
  • Job 14:6 : 6 Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
  • Ps 39:13 : 13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.
  • Ps 78:33 : 33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
  • Eccl 6:11-12 : 11 Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? 12 For who knoweth what is good for man in [his] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
  • Jonah 4:3 : 3 Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
  • Gen 27:46 : 46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
  • Ps 39:10 : 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
  • Job 3:20-22 : 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 7:15
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    15So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones.

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    79%

    18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

    19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

    20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • Eccl 2:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

    18And I hated all my labor wherein I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

  • Job 17:1
    78%

    1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.

  • Job 10:1
    76%

    1My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Jonah 4:3
    75%

    3Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

  • Job 7:3-7
    5 verses
    75%

    3So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

    4When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

    5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.

    6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.

    7Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.

  • Job 6:8-11
    4 verses
    75%

    8Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!

    9Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

    10And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

    11What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient?

  • Job 7:11
    75%

    11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Ps 89:47
    75%

    47Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

  • Isa 38:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

    11I said, I shall not see Jehovah, [even] Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

    12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • Job 17:11
    74%

    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

  • Job 7:17
    74%

    17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,

  • Job 14:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

    14If a man die, shall he live [again] ? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.

  • Job 13:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak; And let come on me what will.

    14Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

    15Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

  • Job 16:22
    73%

    22For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

  • Ps 31:10
    73%

    10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

  • Ps 39:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.

    5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {{Selah [

  • Job 9:21
    73%

    21I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.

  • Job 7:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

    20If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?

    21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

  • Eccl 7:15
    72%

    15All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth [his life] in his evil-doing.

  • Job 16:7
    72%

    7But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.

  • Ps 144:4
    72%

    4Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

  • Ps 102:24
    71%

    24I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: Thy years are throughout all generations.

  • Ps 39:13
    71%

    13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.

  • Job 21:4
    71%

    4As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

  • Job 3:21
    71%

    21Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

  • Job 27:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.

    6My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach [me] so long as I live.

  • Ps 39:10
    70%

    10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

  • Eccl 11:8
    70%

    8Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

  • Ps 7:5
    70%

    5Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; Yea, let him tread my life down to the earth, And lay my glory in the dust. {{Selah