English Standard Version
Job 7:16
16I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone, For my days are but a breath.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I hate my life and don’t want to go on living. Oh, leave me alone for my few remaining days.
Context of Job 7:16
14then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions, 15so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones. I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a breath. 17What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him, 18visit him every morning and test him every moment?
Read all of Job 7Job 7:16 word by word
מָ֭אַסְתִּי לֹא־לְעֹלָ֣ם אֶֽחְיֶ֑ה חֲדַ֥ל מִ֝מֶּ֗נִּי כִּי־הֶ֥בֶל יָמָֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 7:16
- Job 3:20"Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
- Job 6:9that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
- Job 10:1"I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Genesis 27:46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?"
- 1 Kings 19:4But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers."
- Jonah 4:3Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live."
- Job 10:20Are not my days few? Then cease, and leave me alone, that I may find a little cheer
- Job 14:6look away from him and leave him alone, that he may enjoy, like a hired hand, his day.
- Psalms 39:10Remove your stroke from me; I am spent by the hostility of your hand.
- Psalms 62:9Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
- Psalms 78:33So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.
- Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- Ecclesiastes 6:11The more words, the more vanity, and what is the advantage to 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
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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
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