Job 7:16

Job chapter 7 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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

v.15So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.

v.16This passage

v.17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;
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Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
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Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.
Ecclesiastes 6:11
Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
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Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Psalms 144:4
Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.