Job 7:16
I abhorre it, I shall not liue alway: spare me then, for my dayes are but vanitie.
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- Job 10:1 : 1 My soule is cut off though I liue: I wil leaue my complaint vpon my selfe, & wil speake in the bitternesse of my soule.
- 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 But he went a dayes iourney into the wildernesse, and came and sate downe vnder a iuniper tree, and desired that he might die, and sayde, It is now ynough: O Lord, take my soule, for I am no better then my fathers.
- Job 6:9 : 9 That is, that God would destroy me: that he would let his hand go, and cut me off.
- Job 9:21 : 21 Though I were perfite, yet I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my life.
- Job 10:20 : 20 Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,
- Job 14:6 : 6 Turne from him that he may cease vntill his desired day, as an hyreling.
- Ps 39:13 : 13 Stay thine anger from me, that I may recouer my strength, before I go hence and be not.
- Ps 62:9 : 9 Yet the children of men are vanitie, the chiefe men are lies: to lay them vpon a balance they are altogether lighter then vanitie.
- Ps 78:33 : 33 Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.
- Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.
- Eccl 6:11-12 : 11 (7:1) Svrely there be many things that increase vanitie: and what auaileth it man? 12 (7:2) For who knoweth what is good for man in the life and in the nomber of the dayes of the life of his vanitie, seeing he maketh them as a shadowe? For who can shewe vnto man what shall be after him vnder the sunne?
- Jonah 4:3 : 3 Therefore nowe O Lorde, take, I beseech thee, my life from me: for it is better for me to die then to liue.
- Jonah 4:8 : 8 And when the sunne did arise, God prepared also a feruent East winde: and the sunne beat vpon the head of Ionah, that he fainted, and wished in his heart to die, and said, It is better for me to dye, then to liue.
- Gen 27:46 : 46 Also Rebekah said to Izhak, I am weary of my life, for the daughters of Heth. If Iaakob take a wife of the daughters of Heth like these of the daughters of the lande, what auaileth it me to liue?
- Ps 39:10 : 10 Take thy plague away from mee: for I am consumed by the stroke of thine hand.
- Job 3:20-22 : 20 Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts? 21 Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures: 22 Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue.
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15 Therefore my soule chuseth rather to be strangled and to die, then to be in my bones.
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18 Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!
19 And that I were as I had not bene, but brought from the wombe to the graue!
20 Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,
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17 Therefore I hated life: for the worke that is wrought vnder the sunne is grieuous vnto me: for all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.
18 I hated also all my labour, wherein I had trauailed vnder the sunne, which I shall leaue to the man that shalbe after me.
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1 My breath is corrupt: my dayes are cut off, & the graue is readie for me.
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1 My soule is cut off though I liue: I wil leaue my complaint vpon my selfe, & wil speake in the bitternesse of my soule.
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3 Therefore nowe O Lorde, take, I beseech thee, my life from me: for it is better for me to die then to liue.
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3 So haue I had as an inheritance the moneths of vanitie, and painefull nights haue bene appointed vnto me.
4 If I layed me downe, I sayde, When shall I arise? and measuring the euening I am euen full with tossing to and fro vnto the dawning of the day.
5 My flesh is clothed with wormes and filthinesse of the dust: my skinne is rent, and become horrible.
6 My dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope.
7 Remember that my life is but a wind, and that mine eye shall not returne to see pleasure.
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8 Oh that I might haue my desire, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
9 That is, that God would destroy me: that he would let his hand go, and cut me off.
10 Then should I yet haue comfort, (though I burne with sorowe, let him not spare) because I haue not denyed the wordes of the Holy one.
11 What power haue I that I should endure? or what is mine end, if I should prolong my life?
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11 Therefore I will not spare my mouth, but will speake in the trouble of my spirite, and muse in the bitternesse of my minde.
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47 Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men?
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10 I saide in the cutting off of my dayes, I shall goe to the gates of the graue: I am depriued of the residue of my yeeres.
11 I said, I shall not see the Lord, euen the Lord in the land of the liuing: I shall see man no more among the inhabitants of the world.
12 Mine habitation is departed, and is remoued from me, like a shepheards tent: I haue cut off like a weauer my life: he will cut me off from the height: from day to night, thou wilt make an ende of me.
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11 My dayes are past, mine enterprises are broken, and the thoughts of mine heart
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17 What is man, that thou doest magnifie him, and that thou settest thine heart vpon him?
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13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, and keepe me secret, vntill thy wrath were past, and wouldest giue me terme, and remember me.
14 If a man die, shall he liue againe? All the dayes of mine appointed time will I waite, till my changing shall come.
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13 Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.
14 Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soule in mine hande?
15 Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.
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22 For the yeeres accounted come, and I shal go the way, whence I shall not returne.
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10 For my life is wasted with heauinesse, and my yeeres with mourning: my strength faileth for my paine, and my bones are consumed.
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4 Lord, let me know mine ende, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: let mee knowe howe long I haue to liue.
5 Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.
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21 Though I were perfite, yet I knowe not my soule: therefore abhorre I my life.
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19 Howe long will it be yer thou depart from me? thou wilt not let me alone whiles I may swallowe my spettle.
20 I haue sinned, what shal I do vnto thee? O thou preseruer of me, why hast thou set me as a marke against thee, so that I am a burden vnto my selfe?
21 And why doest thou not pardon my trespasse? and take away mine iniquitie? for nowe shall I sleepe in the dust, and if thou seekest me in the morning, I shall not be found.
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15 (7:17) I haue seene all things in the dayes of my vanitie: there is a iust man that perisheth in his iustice, and there is a wicked man that continueth long in his malice.
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7 But now hee maketh mee wearie: O God, thou hast made all my congregation desolate,
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4 Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.
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24 And I sayd, O my God, take me not away in the middes of my dayes: thy yeeres endure from generation to generation.
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13 Stay thine anger from me, that I may recouer my strength, before I go hence and be not.
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4 Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?
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21 Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:
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5 God forbid, that I should iustifie you: vntill I dye, I will neuer take away mine innocencie from my selfe.
6 I will keepe my righteousnesse, and wil not forsake it: mine heart shall not reprooue me of my dayes.
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10 Take thy plague away from mee: for I am consumed by the stroke of thine hand.
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8 Though a man liue many yeeres, and in them all he reioyce, yet hee shall remember the daies of darkenesse, because they are manie, all that commeth is vanitie.
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5 Then let the enemie persecute my soule and take it: yea, let him treade my life downe vpon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.