Job 7:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

I have wasted away -- not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days `are' vanity.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 10:1 : 1 My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, `Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I `am' not better than my fathers.'
  • Job 6:9 : 9 That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!
  • Job 9:21 : 21 Perfect I am! -- I know not my soul, I despise my life.
  • Job 10:20 : 20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,
  • Job 14:6 : 6 Look away from off him that he may cease, Till he enjoy as an hireling his day.
  • Ps 39:13 : 13 Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!
  • Ps 62:9 : 9 Only -- vanity `are' the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity `are' lighter.
  • Ps 78:33 : 33 And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man to vanity hath been like, His days `are' as a shadow passing by.
  • Eccl 6:11-12 : 11 For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is' to man? 12 For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?
  • Jonah 4:3 : 3 And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better `is' my death than my life.'
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, `Better `is' my death than my life.'
  • Gen 27:46 : 46 And Rebekah saith unto Isaac, `I have been disgusted with my life because of the presence of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these -- from the daughters of the land -- why do I live?'
  • Ps 39:10 : 10 Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.
  • Job 3:20-22 : 20 Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul? 21 Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures. 22 Who are glad -- unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 7:15
    83%

    15And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    79%

    18And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.

    19As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,

    20Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,

  • Eccl 2:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17And I have hated life, for sad to me `is' the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

    18And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

  • Job 17:1
    78%

    1My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves `are' for me.

  • Job 10:1
    76%

    1My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Jonah 4:3
    75%

    3And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better `is' my death than my life.'

  • Job 7:3-7
    5 verses
    75%

    3So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.

    4If I lay down then I said, `When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.

    5Clothed hath been my flesh `with' worms, And a clod of dust, My skin hath been shrivelled and is loathsome,

    6My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.

    7Remember Thou that my life `is' a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.

  • Job 6:8-11
    4 verses
    75%

    8O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!

    9That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!

    10And yet it is my comfort, (And I exult in pain -- He doth not spare,) That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One.

    11What `is' my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?

  • Job 7:11
    75%

    11Also I -- I withhold not my mouth -- I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Ps 89:47
    75%

    47Remember, I pray Thee, what `is' life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

  • Isa 38:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    10`I -- I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.

    11I said, I do not see Jah -- Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.

    12My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

  • Job 17:11
    74%

    11My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!

  • Job 7:17
    74%

    17What `is' man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?

  • Job 14:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

    13O that in Sheol Thou wouldst conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

    14If a man dieth -- doth he revive? All days of my warfare I wait, till my change come.

  • Job 13:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?

    14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?

    15Lo, He doth slay me -- I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.

  • Job 16:22
    73%

    22When a few years do come, Then a path I return not do I go.

  • Ps 31:10
    73%

    10For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.

  • Ps 39:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4`Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it `is',' I know how frail I `am'.

    5Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age `is' as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity `is' every man set up. Selah.

  • Job 9:21
    73%

    21Perfect I am! -- I know not my soul, I despise my life.

  • Job 7:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle.

    20I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself -- and what?

    21Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!

  • Eccl 7:15
    72%

    15The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging `himself' in his wrong.

  • Job 16:7
    72%

    7Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,

  • Ps 144:4
    72%

    4Man to vanity hath been like, His days `are' as a shadow passing by.

  • Ps 102:24
    71%

    24I say, `My God, take me not up in the midst of my days,' Through all generations `are' Thine years.

  • Ps 39:13
    71%

    13Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

  • Job 21:4
    71%

    4I -- to man `is' my complaint? and if `so', wherefore May not my temper become short?

  • Job 3:21
    71%

    21Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.

  • Job 27:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5Pollution to me -- if I justify you, Till I expire I turn not aside mine integrity from me.

    6On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.

  • Ps 39:10
    70%

    10Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.

  • Eccl 11:8
    70%

    8But, if man liveth many years, In all of them let him rejoice, And remember the days of darkness, For they are many! all that is coming `is' vanity.

  • Ps 7:5
    70%

    5An enemy pursueth my soul, and overtaketh, And treadeth down to the earth my life, And my honour placeth in the dust. Selah.