Job 7:16

Job 7:16 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
• New International Version (NIV)I despise my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone; my days have no meaning.
• English Standard Version (ESV)I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone, For my days are but a breath.

Context of Job 7:16

14Then You frighten me with dreams And terrify me through visions, 15So that I would choose suffocation, Death rather than my pain. I waste away and loathe my life; I will not live forever. Let me alone, for my days are but a breath [futile and without substance]. 17What is man that You [should] magnify him [and think him important]? And that You are concerned about him? 18And that You examine him every morning And try and test him every moment?

Job 7:16 word by word

מָ֭אַסְתִּי לֹא־לְעֹלָ֣ם אֶֽחְיֶ֑ה חֲדַ֥ל מִ֝מֶּ֗נִּי כִּי־הֶ֥בֶל יָמָֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• I loatheמָאַסmâ'as · to rejectH3988
• I would not liveחָיָהchâyâh · to liveH2421
• alwayעוֹלָם‛ôlâm ‛ôlâm · forever: enduringH5769
• let me aloneחָדַלchâdal · to ceaseH2308
• for my daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• vanityהֶ֫בֶלhebel hăbêl · vanityH1892

Cross-references for Job 7:16

• Job 3:20“Why is the light given to him who is in misery, And life to the bitter in soul,
• Job 6:9I wish that it would please God to crush me, That He would let loose His hand and cut me off.
• Job 10:1“I am disgusted with my life and loathe it! I will give free expression to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Genesis 27:46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of living because of the daughters of Heth [these insolent wives of Esau]. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”
• 1 Kings 19:4But he himself traveled a day’s journey into the wilderness, and he came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked [God] that he might die. He said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
• Jonah 4:3Therefore now, O Lord, just take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
• Job 10:20Would He not let my few days alone, Withdraw from me that I may have a little cheer
• Job 14:6[O God] turn your gaze from him so that he may rest, Until he fulfills his day [on earth] like a hired man.
• Psalms 39:10Remove Your plague from me; I am wasting away because of the conflict and opposition of Your hand.
• Psalms 62:9Men of low degree are only a breath (emptiness), and men of [high] rank are a lie (delusion). In the balances they go up [because they have no measurable weight or value]; They are together lighter than a breath.
• Psalms 78:33Therefore He consumed their days like a breath [in emptiness and futility] And their years in sudden terror.
• Psalms 144:4Man is like a mere breath; His days are like a shadow that passes away.
• Ecclesiastes 6:11For there are many other words that increase futility. What then is the advantage for a man?

Commentaries on Job 7:16

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16I loathe it; I would not live alway - Life, in such circumstances, is hateful to me; and though I wish for long life, yet if length of days were offered to me with the sufferings which I now undergo, I would despise the offer and spurn the boon. Mr. Good is not satisfied with our common version, and has adopted the following, which in his notes he endeavors to illustrate and defend: Job 7:15; So that my soul coveteth suffocation, And death in comparison…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16I loathe it - I loathe my life as it is now. It has become a burden and I desire to part with it, and to go down to the grave. There is, however, considerable variety in the interpretation of this. Noyes renders it, “I am wasting away.” Dr. Good connects it with the previous verse and understands by it, “death in comparison with my sufferings do I despise.” The Syriac is, - it fails to me, that is, I fail, or my powers are wasting away. But the Hebrew…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-16Verses 7-16 Plain truths as to the shortness and vanity of man's life, and the certainty of death, do us good, when we think and speak of them with application to ourselves. Dying is done but once, and therefore it had need be well done. An error here is past retrieve. Other clouds arise, but the same cloud never returns: so a new generation of men is raised up, but the former generation vanishes away. Glorified saints shall return no more to the cares…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16for my days are but a breath: Literally for my days are a vapor (Hebrew hebel); see the Theme Note titled “All Is ‘Vapor’.”Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. Let me alone--that is, cease to afflict me for the few and vain days still left to me.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 7:16

• Death
• Vanity

In the dictionaries

• Bitterness
• Complain
• Dust
• Preserver
• Terrify
• Wearisome

Commentaries on Job 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings