God’s Word Translation
Job 7:16
16I hate my life; I do not want to live forever. Leave me alone because my days are so brief.
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. 15My throat would rather be choked. My body would prefer death ⌞to these dreams⌟. I hate my life; I do not want to live forever. Leave me alone because my days are so brief. 17“What is a mortal that you should make so much of him, that you should be concerned about him? 18⌞What is he⌟ that you should inspect him every morning and examine 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
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 7:16
- Job 3:20“Why give light to one in misery and life to those who find it so bitter,
- Job 6:9that God would ⌞finally⌟ be willing to crush me, that he would reach out to cut me off.
- Job 10:1“I hate my life. I will freely express my complaint. I will speak as bitterly as I feel.
- Genesis 27:46Rebekah said to Isaac, “I can’t stand Hittite women! If Jacob marries a Hittite woman like one of those from around here, I might as well die.”
- 1 Kings 19:4Then he traveled through the wilderness for a day. He sat down under a broom plant and wanted to die. “I’ve had enough now, Lord,” he said. “Take my life! I’m no better than my ancestors.”
- Jonah 4:3So now, Lord, take my life. I’d rather be dead than alive.”
- Job 10:20“ ‘Isn’t my life short enough? So stop ⌞this⌟, and leave me alone. Let me smile a little
- Job 14:6Look away from him, and he will cease to be. Meanwhile, he loves life as a laborer loves work.
- Psalms 39:10Remove the sickness you laid upon me. My life is over because you struck me with your hand.
- Psalms 62:9Common people are only a whisper in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a whisper in the wind.
- Psalms 78:33He brought their days to an end like a whisper in the wind. He brought their years to an end in terror.
- Psalms 144:4Humans are like a breath of air. Their life span is like a fleeting shadow.
- Ecclesiastes 6:11The more words there are, the more pointless they become. What advantage do mortals gain from this?
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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