Job 7:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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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;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 7:15
    83%

    15 So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    79%

    18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

    19 And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

    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,

  • Eccl 2:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17 So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.

    18 Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits.

  • Job 17:1
    78%

    1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

  • Job 10:1
    76%

    1 My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.

  • Jonah 4:3
    75%

    3 So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.

  • Job 7:3-7
    5 verses
    75%

    3 So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.

    4 When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

    5 My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

    6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

    7 O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.

  • Job 6:8-11
    4 verses
    75%

    8 If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire!

    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!

    10 So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

    11 Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?

  • Job 7:11
    75%

    11 So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

  • Ps 89:47
    75%

    47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

  • Isa 38:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    10 I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.

    11 I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.

    12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

  • Job 17:11
    74%

    11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

  • Job 7:17
    74%

    17 What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

  • Job 14:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

    14 If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

  • Job 13:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13 Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.

    14 I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

    15 Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;

  • Job 16:22
    73%

    22 For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

  • Ps 31:10
    73%

    10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • Ps 39:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4 Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

    5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

  • Job 9:21
    73%

    21 I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.

  • Job 7:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19 How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

    20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

    21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

  • Eccl 7:15
    72%

    15 These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.

  • Job 16:7
    72%

    7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

  • Ps 144:4
    72%

    4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • Ps 102:24
    71%

    24 I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:

  • Ps 39:13
    71%

    13 Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.

  • Job 21:4
    71%

    4 As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?

  • Job 3:21
    71%

    21 To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

  • Job 27:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5 Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness.

    6 I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.

  • Ps 39:10
    70%

    10 No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

  • Eccl 11:8
    70%

    8 But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

  • Ps 7:5
    70%

    5 Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)