Job 7:16 KJV
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Matthew Henry
- Job expostulates with GodPlain 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...
Thompson Chains
- Weariness of LifeSee the chain from Job 3:20 · 7 links
- VanitySee the chain from Psalms 39:11 · 7 links
Cross References
- Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- 1 Kings 19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
- Job 6:9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
- Job 9:21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
- Job 10:20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
- Job 14:6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
- Psalms 39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
- Genesis 27:46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
- Job 3:20–22 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; …
- Psalms 39:10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
- Psalms 62:9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
- Psalms 78:33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
- Psalms 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
- Ecclesiastes 6:11–12 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? …
- Jonah 4:3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
- Jonah 4:8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
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Hebrew and Strong’s
- I loathe מָאַסְתִּי māʾastî מָאַס Verb · qal perfect, first person common singular
- I would not live לֹא lōʾ Negative אֶחְיֶה ʾeḥyê חָיָה Verb · qal imperfect, first person common singular
- alway לְעֹלָם lĕʿōlām עוֹלָם Noun · masculine singular · with preposition
- let me alone חֲדַל ḥădal חָדַל Verb · qal imperative, second person masculine singular
- for my days יָמָי yāmāy יוֹם Noun · masculine plural construct · with suffix: first person common singular
- vanity מִמֶּנִּי mimmennî Preposition · with suffix: first person common singular כִּי kî Conjunction הֶבֶל hebel הֶבֶל Noun · masculine singular
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