Verse 16

I loathe it; I would not live forever. Leave 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 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?