Job 7:16

In 11 translations

BSB

I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

KJV

I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

WEB

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

ASV

I loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

LSV

I have wasted away—I do not live for all time. Cease from me, for my days [are] vanity.

YLT

I have wasted away — not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days [are] vanity.

DBY

I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath.

DRC

I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.

GNV

I abhorre it, I shall not liue alway: spare me then, for my dayes are but vanitie.

JPS

I loathe it; I shall not live alway; let me alone; for my days are vanity.

LXXE

For I shall not live for ever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life is vain.

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Original-language editions

WLC

מָ֭אַסְתִּי לֹא־לְעֹלָ֣ם אֶֽחְיֶ֑ה חֲדַ֥ל מִ֝מֶּ֗נִּי כִּי־הֶ֥בֶל יָמָֽי׃

LXX-Br

Οὐ γὰρ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ζήσομαι, ἵνα μακροθυμήσω· ἀπόστα ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ, κενὸς γάρ μου ὁ βίος.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• 1 Kings 19:4while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
• Job 9:21Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
• Job 14:6look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
• Jonah 4:8As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
• Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
• Job 10:20Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
• Job 6:9that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
• Psalms 39:13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
• Jonah 4:3And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
• Genesis 27:46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
• Psalms 39:10Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.
• Psalms 78:33So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
• Ecclesiastes 6:11–12For the more words, the more futility—and how does that profit anyone? For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will…
• Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
• Job 3:20–22Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul, who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure, who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?

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