Job 7:16
I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!
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- Job 10:1 : 1 An Appeal for Revelation“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 while he went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the LORD to take his life:“I’ve had enough! Now, O LORD, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”
- Job 6:9 : 9 And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
- Job 9:21 : 21 I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.
- Job 10:20 : 20 Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
- Job 14:6 : 6 Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.
- Ps 39:13 : 13 Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.
- Ps 62:9 : 9 Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.
- Ps 78:33 : 33 So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.
- Ps 144:4 : 4 People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
- Eccl 6:11-12 : 11 The more one argues with words, the less he accomplishes. How does that benefit him? 12 For no one knows what is best for a person during his life– during the few days of his fleeting life– for they pass away like a shadow. Nor can anyone tell him what the future will hold for him on earth.
- Jonah 4:3 : 3 So now, LORD, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!”
- Jonah 4:8 : 8 When the sun began to shine, God sent a hot east wind. So the sun beat down on Jonah’s head, and he grew faint. So he despaired of life, and said,“I would rather die than live!”
- Gen 27:46 : 46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac,“I am deeply depressed because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!”
- Ps 39:10 : 10 Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!
- Job 3:20-22 : 20 Longing for Death“Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter, 21 to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures, 22 who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?
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19 I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!
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17 So I loathed life because what happens on earth seems awful to me; for all the benefits of wisdom are futile– like chasing the wind.
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1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
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1 An Appeal for Revelation“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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3 thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.
4 If I lie down, I say,‘When will I arise?’, and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.
5 My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.
6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
7 Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.
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8 A Cry for Death“Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for!
9 And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
10 Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
11 What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?
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11 Job Remonstrates with God“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.
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47 Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
- Isa 38:10-123 verses74%
10 “I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’
11 “I thought,‘I will no longer see the LORD in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.
12 My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.
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11 My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.
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17 Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?
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13 The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!
14 If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.
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13 “Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may.
14 Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands?
15 Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!
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22 For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.
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10 For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.
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4 “O LORD, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!
5 Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)
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21 I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.
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19 Will you never look away from me, will you not let me alone long enough to swallow my spittle?
20 If I have sinned– what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?
21 And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”
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15 Exceptions to the Law of Retribution During the days of my fleeting life I have seen both of these things: Sometimes a righteous person dies prematurely in spite of his righteousness, and sometimes a wicked person lives long in spite of his evil deeds.
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7 Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.
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4 People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
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24 I say,“O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life! You endure through all generations.
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13 Turn your angry gaze away from me, so I can be happy before I pass away.
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4 Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?
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21 to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,
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5 I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!
6 I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.
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10 Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!
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8 So, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all, but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many– all that is about to come is obscure.
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5 may an enemy relentlessly chase me and catch me; may he trample me to death and leave me lying dishonored in the dust.(Selah)