Job 7:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

I loathe it; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are vanity.

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  • 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 ancestors.
  • 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 I would 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 Look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hired man, his day.
  • Ps 39:13 : 13 O spare me, so I may recover strength, before I go away and am 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 vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
  • Eccl 6:11-12 : 11 Since there are many things that increase vanity, what advantage does man have? 12 For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
  • Jonah 4:3 : 3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a scorching east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted and wished 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 takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these who are of the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?
  • Ps 39:10 : 10 Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.
  • Job 3:20-22 : 20 Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul; 21 Who long for death, but it does not come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures; 22 Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 7:15
    83%

    15so that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    79%

    18Why then have You 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.

    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%

    17Therefore I hated life, because the work that was done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

    18Yes, I hated all my labor that I had labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

  • Job 17:1
    78%

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

  • Job 10:1
    76%

    1My 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 beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

  • Job 7:3-7
    5 verses
    75%

    3So I am 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 tossing to and fro until the dawning of the day.

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

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

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

  • 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 destroy me; that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

    10Then I should still have comfort; yes, 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 my 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; why have you made all men in vain?

  • Isa 38:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    10I said in the prime of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.

    11I said, I shall not see the LORD, the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall see man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

    12My lifespan is gone, taken from me like a shepherd's tent: I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off with pining sickness: from day to night You 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 you should magnify him, and that you should set your heart upon him?

  • Job 14:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13Oh that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

    14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait, till my change comes.

  • Job 13:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let happen to me what will.

    14Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?

    15Though he slays me, yet will I trust in him; but I will defend my own ways before him.

  • Job 16:22
    73%

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

  • Ps 31:10
    73%

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

  • Ps 39:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

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

    5Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

  • Job 9:21
    73%

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

  • Job 7:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19How long will you not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?

    20I have sinned; what shall I do unto you, O preserver of men? Why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?

    21And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall 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 who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his wickedness.

  • Job 16:7
    72%

    7But now he has made me weary; you have made desolate all my company.

  • Ps 144:4
    72%

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

  • Ps 102:24
    71%

    24I said, "O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days; your years are throughout all generations."

  • Ps 39:13
    71%

    13O spare me, so I may recover strength, before I go away and am no more.

  • Job 21:4
    71%

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

  • Job 3:21
    71%

    21Who long for death, but it does not come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

  • Job 27:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5God forbid that I should justify you: until I die I will not renounce my integrity.

    6My righteousness I hold fast and will not let it go; my heart shall not reproach me as long as I live.

  • Ps 39:10
    70%

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

  • Eccl 11:8
    70%

    8But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is vanity.

  • Ps 7:5
    70%

    5Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yes, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.