Job 7:16 Cross References - MSB

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

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?”

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.”

²⁰ Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul, ²¹ who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure, ²² who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?

⁹ that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!

²¹ Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

¹ “I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

²⁰ Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,

⁶ look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

¹⁰ Remove Your scourge from me; I am perishing by the force of Your hand.

¹³ Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

⁹ Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

³³ So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

⁴ Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

¹¹ For the more words, the more futility—and how does that profit anyone? 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?

³ And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

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.”