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 thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions; 15So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones. I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath. 17What is man, that thou makest much of him? and that thou settest thy heart upon him? 18And that thou visitest him every morning, triest him every moment?

Job 7:16 word by word

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

• liveחָיָהchâyâh · to liveH2421
• daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• breathהֶ֫בֶלhebel hăbêl · vanityH1892

Cross-references for Job 7:16

• Job 3:20Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,
• Job 6:9And that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
• Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Genesis 27:46And Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good should my life do me?
• 1 Kings 19:4And he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a certain broom-bush, and requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough: now, Jehovah, take my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
• Jonah 4:3And now, Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.
• Job 10:20Are not my days few? cease then and let me alone, that I may revive a little,
• Job 14:6Look away from him; and let him rest, till he accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
• Psalms 39:10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
• Psalms 62:9Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together [lighter] than vanity.
• Psalms 78:33And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
• Psalms 144:4Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
• Ecclesiastes 6:11For there are many things that increase vanity: what is man advantaged?

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