Job 7:16

World English Bible (2000)

I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 10:1 : 1 "My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. 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 Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers."
  • Job 6:9 : 9 even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
  • Job 9:21 : 21 I am blameless. I don't respect myself. I despise my life.
  • Job 10:20 : 20 Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
  • Job 14:6 : 6 Look away from him, that he may rest, until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
  • Ps 39:13 : 13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
  • Ps 78:33 : 33 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
  • Eccl 6:11-12 : 11 For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man? 12 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
  • Jonah 4:3 : 3 Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."
  • Gen 27:46 : 46 Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"
  • Ps 39:10 : 10 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
  • Job 3:20-22 : 20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul, 21 Who long for death, but it doesn't 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, death rather than my bones.

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    79%

    18"'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, 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.

    20Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • Eccl 2:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

    18I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

  • Job 17:1
    78%

    1"My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

  • Job 10:1
    76%

    1"My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Jonah 4:3
    75%

    3Therefore now, Yahweh, 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 am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

    4When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

    5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.

    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 no more see good.

  • Job 6:8-11
    4 verses
    75%

    8"Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,

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

    10Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

    11What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

  • Job 7:11
    75%

    11"Therefore I will not keep silent. 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! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

  • Isa 38:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    10I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."

    11I said, "I won't see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

    12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd's tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

  • Job 17:11
    74%

    11My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

  • Job 7:17
    74%

    17What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

  • Job 14:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, 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 warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

  • Job 13:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

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

    15Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

  • Job 16:22
    73%

    22For when a few years are come, I shall go the way of no return.

  • Ps 31:10
    73%

    10For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

  • Ps 39:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4"Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

    5Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

  • Job 9:21
    73%

    21I am blameless. I don't respect myself. I despise my life.

  • Job 7:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

    20If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

    21Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

  • Eccl 7:15
    72%

    15All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

  • Job 16:7
    72%

    7But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

  • Ps 144:4
    72%

    4Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

  • Ps 102:24
    71%

    24I said, "My God, don't take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

  • Ps 39:13
    71%

    13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

  • Job 21:4
    71%

    4As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

  • Job 3:21
    71%

    21Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

  • Job 27:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

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

  • Ps 39:10
    70%

    10Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

  • Eccl 11:8
    70%

    8Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

  • Ps 7:5
    70%

    5let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.