Job 7:16
I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
BSB
ASV
I loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.
KJV
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
I 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 with my suffering. Job 7:16 No longer would I live! O, release me!
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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,…
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And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
As 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…
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Job 6:9that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
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while 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,…
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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Job 14:6look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
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Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?
Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?