New International Version
Job 7:16
16I despise my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone; my days have no meaning.
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.
- 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.
- 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
14even then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions, 15so that I prefer strangling and death, rather than this body of mine. I despise my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone; my days have no meaning. 17“What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention, 18that you examine them every morning and test 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 is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter of soul,
- Job 6:9that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut off my life!
- Job 10:1“I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.
- Genesis 27:46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”
- 1 Kings 19:4while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”
- Jonah 4:3Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
- Job 10:20Are not my few days almost over? Turn away from me so I can have a moment’s joy
- Job 14:6So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.
- Psalms 39:10Remove your scourge from me; I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
- Psalms 62:9Surely the lowborn are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie. If weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.
- Psalms 78:33So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.
- Psalms 144:4They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.
- Ecclesiastes 6:11The more the words, the less the meaning, 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
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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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