Verse 16

I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!

Referenced Verses

  • 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?