Job 7:16

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Job 7:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible

14 then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

15 so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

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

17 What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,

18 that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?

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Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

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who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?

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that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!

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“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Genesis 27:46

Then 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?”

1 Kings 19:4

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, for I am no better than my fathers.”

Jonah 4:3

And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:8

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 to die than to live.”

Job 10:20

Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,

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look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

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Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.

Psalms 39:13

Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

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So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

Psalms 144:4

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

For the more words, the more futility—and how does that profit anyone?

Ecclesiastes 6:12

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 come after him under the sun?