New English Translation
Job 7:16
16I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!
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 scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions, 15so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life. I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor! 17“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them? 18And that you visit them every morning, and try them 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 does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,
- Job 6:9And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
- Job 10:1“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Genesis 27:46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am deeply depressed because of these daughters of Heth. If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!”
- 1 Kings 19:4while he went a day’s journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the Lord to take his life: “I’ve had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I’m no better than my ancestors.”
- Jonah 4:3So now, Lord, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!”
- Job 10:20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
- Job 14:6Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.
- Psalms 39:10Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!
- Psalms 62:9Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.
- Psalms 78:33So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.
- Psalms 144:4People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
- Ecclesiastes 6:11The more one argues with words, the less he accomplishes. How does that benefit him?
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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