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 with visions, 15so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body. I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath. 17What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him, 18that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?

Job 7:16 word by word

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

• I loatheמָאַסmâ'as · to rejectH3988
• I would notלֹאlô' lô' lôh · notH3808
• liveחָיָהchâyâh · to liveH2421
• foreverעוֹלָם‛ôlâm ‛ôlâm · forever: enduringH5769
• Leave me aloneחָדַלchâdal · to ceaseH2308
• Leave me aloneמִן־min minnîy minnêy · fromH4480
• forכִּיkîy · forH3588
• my daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• a breathהֶ֫בֶלhebel hăbêl · vanityH1892

Cross-references for Job 7:16

• Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
• Job 6:9that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
• Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Genesis 27:46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
• 1 Kings 19:4while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
• Jonah 4:3And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
• Job 10:20Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
• Job 14:6look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
• Psalms 39:10Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
• Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
• Psalms 78:33So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
• Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
• Ecclesiastes 6:11For the more words, the more futility—and how does that profit anyone?

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