Job 7:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

Job 7:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 27:5
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
2 Samuel 17:23
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-16)

Job, observing perhaps that his friends, though they would not interrupt him in his discourse, yet began to grow weary, and not to heed much what he said, here turns to God, and speaks to him. If men will not hear us, God will; if men cannot help us, he can; for his arm is not shortened, neither is his ear heavy. Yet we must not go to school to Job here to learn how to speak to God; for, it must b…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. Umbreit translates, “So that I could wish to strangle myself--dead by my own hands.” He softens this idea of Job’s harboring the thought of suicide, by representing it as entertained only in agonizing dreams, and immediately repudiated with horror in Job 7:16, “Yet that (self-strangling) I loathe.” This is forcible and graphic. Perhaps the meaning is simply, “My soul chooses (even) strangling…