Tree of Life Version
Job 7:16
16I despise it; I would not 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 frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions, 15so that my soul prefers strangulation, and my bones death. I despise it; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a vapor. 17“What is mankind, that You magnify him, that You set Your heart on him, 18that You visit him every morning, and test him in 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 3:20Why is light given to one who suffers and life to the bitter of soul,
- Job 6:9that God would be willing to crush me, to release His hand, and cut me off!
- Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will give full vent to my complaint; I will speak out of the bitterness of my soul.
- Genesis 27:46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth like these women, from the daughters of the land what is life to me?”
- 1 Kings 19:4But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom bush. He prayed that he might die. “It’s too much!” he said. “Now, Adonai, take my life! For I’m no better than my fathers.”
- Jonah 4:3So please, Adonai, take my soul from me—because better is my death than my life.”
- Job 10:20Are not my days few? Then stop, leave me alone so I might have a little joy,
- Job 14:6Look away from him and let him alone, until he fulfills his time like a hired laborer.
- Psalms 39:10I am speechless, not opening my mouth —for You have done it.
- Psalms 62:9Trust in Him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart in His presence. God is our refuge. Selah
- Psalms 78:33So He ended their days in futility and their years in terror.
- Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath— his days are like a passing shadow.
- Ecclesiastes 6:11When there are many words, futility increases! How does that benefit 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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