Job 7:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

I loathe [it]; 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 leave my complaint upon myself; 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 LORD, take away my life; for I [am] not better than my fathers.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
  • Job 9:21 : 21 [Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would 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 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
  • Ps 39:13 : 13 O 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: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether [lighter] than vanity.
  • Ps 78:33 : 33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
  • 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 be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better? 12 For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] 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 LORD, 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 did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to 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 [which are] 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 thine hand.
  • Job 3:20-22 : 20 ¶ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul; 21 Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?

Similar Verses (AI)

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    15So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.

  • Job 10:18-20
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    79%

    18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that 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.

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

  • Eccl 2:17-18
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    78%

    17¶ Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

    18Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

  • Job 17:1
    78%

    1¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.

  • Job 10:1
    76%

    1¶ My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Jonah 4:3
    75%

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

  • Job 7:3-7
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    75%

    3So am I made to possess months of vanity, 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 is broken, and become loathsome.

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

    7¶ O remember that my life [is] wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

  • Job 6:8-11
    4 verses
    75%

    8¶ Oh 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 destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

    10Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

    11What [is] my strength, that I should hope? and what [is] mine end, that I should prolong my life?

  • 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%

    47Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

  • Isa 38:10-12
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    74%

    10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

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

    12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: 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%

    17¶ What [is] man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

  • Job 14:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, 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 appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

  • Job 13:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13¶ Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will].

    14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

    15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

  • Job 16:22
    73%

    22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.

  • Ps 31:10
    73%

    10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • Ps 39:4-5
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    73%

    4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].

    5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.

  • Job 9:21
    73%

    21[Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

  • Job 7:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

    20I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against 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 sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I [shall] not [be].

  • Eccl 7:15
    72%

    15All [things] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just [man] that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his life] in his wickedness.

  • 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%

    13O 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 if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?

  • Job 3:21
    71%

    21Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

  • Job 27:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove 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 thine hand.

  • Eccl 11:8
    70%

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

  • Ps 7:5
    70%

    5Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take [it]; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.