Job 7:16
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
KJV
Desperavi : nequaquam ultra jam vivam : parce mihi, nihil enim sunt dies mei.
Vulgate
οὐ γὰρ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ζήσομαι, ἵνα μακροθυμήσω· ἀπόστα ἀπ’ ἐμοῦ, κενὸς γάρ μου ὁ βίος.
LXX
I loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.
ASV
מָ֭אַסְתִּי לֹא לְ/עֹלָ֣ם אֶֽחְיֶ֑ה חֲדַ֥ל מִ֝מֶּ֗/נִּי כִּי הֶ֥בֶל יָמָֽ/י
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֶחְדָּ֑ל
'chdl
verb · 59×
הָֽבֶל
hbl
noun · 73×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
מָאָ֔סוּ
m'sv
verb · 76×
נִי
ny
verb · 264×
עוֹלָֽם
'vlm
noun · 427×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 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 l
- Job 6:9 — Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
- Job 9:21 — Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
- 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 10:20 — Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
- 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
- Ps 39:13 — O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
- Ps 62:9 — Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
- Ps 78:39 — For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.