Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 7:16I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.
Correlating Passages
I loathe it
Job 3:20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;
Job 3:21 Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Job 3:22 Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
Job 6:9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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.
Gen 27:46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these [which are] of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
1Ki 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.
Jon 4:3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for [it is] better for me to die than to live.
Jon 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.
let me alone
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.
Psa 39:10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
Psa 39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
my days
Psa 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.
Psa 78:33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
Psa 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.
Ecc 6:11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?
Ecc 6:12 For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

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Scott, Thomas. "Job 7:16," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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