Job 7:16 Cross References - YLT

¹⁶ I have wasted away—not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days are vanity.

⁴⁶ And Rebekah saith unto Isaac, `I have been disgusted with my life because of the presence of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these—from the daughters of the land—why do I live?'

⁴ and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, `Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I am not better than my fathers.'

²⁰ Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul? ²¹ Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures. ²² Who are glad—unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.

⁹ That God would please—and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!

²¹ Perfect I am! —I know not my soul, I despise my life.

¹ My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

²⁰ Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,

⁶ Look away from off him that he may cease, Till he enjoy as an hireling his day.

¹⁰ Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.

¹³ Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

⁹ Only—vanity are the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity are lighter.

³³ And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble.

⁴ Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by.

¹¹ For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage is to man? ¹² For who knoweth what is good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

³ And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better is my death than my life.'

⁸ And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, `Better is my death than my life.'