Job 7:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

Job 7:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
Job 10:1
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 9:21
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Job 14:6
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
Jonah 4:8
And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

Topics

Dead (people)Death Dying Life Man Sleep Vanity

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. 16)

16. Let me alone--that is, cease to afflict me for the few and vain days still left to me.