Job 7:16

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    79%

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

    19 I 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
    2 verses
    78%

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

    18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: bause 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%

    3 Therefore 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
    5 verses
    75%

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

    4 When 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.

    5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

    6 My 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
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    75%

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

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

    10 Then 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.

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

  • Job 7:11
    75%

    11 Therefore 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%

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

  • Isa 38:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    10 I 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.

    11 I 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.

    12 Mine 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%

    11 My 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%

    13 O 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!

    14 If 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.

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

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

  • Job 16:22
    73%

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

  • Ps 31:10
    73%

    10 For 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%

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

    5 Behold, 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%

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

    20 I 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?

    21 And 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%

    15 All 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%

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

  • Ps 144:4
    72%

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

  • Ps 102:24
    71%

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

  • Ps 39:13
    71%

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

  • Job 21:4
    71%

    4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

  • Job 3:21
    71%

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

  • Job 27:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5 God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me.

    6 My 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%

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

  • Eccl 11:8
    70%

    8 But 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%

    5 Let 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.