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Job 7

Job 7:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Ib loathe
ma'ac (Hebrew #3988)
to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear
KJV usage: abhor, cast away (off), contemn, despise, disdain, (become) loathe(some), melt away, refuse, reject, reprobate, X utterly, vile person.
Pronounce: maw-as'
Origin: a primitive root
it; I would not live
chayah (Hebrew #2421)
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
KJV usage: keep (leave, make) alive, X certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, (X God) save (alive, life, lives), X surely, be whole.
Pronounce: khaw-yaw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2331, 2421)
alway
`owlam (Hebrew #5769)
from 5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
KJV usage: alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-))ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
Pronounce: o-lawm'
Origin: or lolam {o-lawm'}
: let me alone
chadal (Hebrew #2308)
properly, to be flabby, i.e. (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle
KJV usage: cease, end, fall, forbear, forsake, leave (off), let alone, rest, be unoccupied, want.
Pronounce: khaw-dal'
Origin: a primitive root
; for my days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
are vanity
hebel (Hebrew #1892)
from 1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
KJV usage: X altogether, vain, vanity.
Pronounce: heh'bel
Origin: or (rarely in the abs.) habel {hab-ale'}
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Job 10:1,20• 1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
 20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, (Job 10:1,20)

Cross References

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I loathe it.
Job 3:20‑22• 20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
 21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
 22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? (Job 3:20‑22)
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Job 6:9• 9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! (Job 6:9)
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Job 10:1• 1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. (Job 10:1)
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Gen. 27:46• 46And 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? (Gen. 27:46)
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1 Kings 19:4• 4But 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. (1 Kings 19:4)
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Jonah 4:3,8• 3Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
 8And 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. (Jonah 4:3,8)
let me alone.
Job 10:20• 20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, (Job 10:20)
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Job 14:6• 6Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. (Job 14:6)
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Psa. 39:10,13• 10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
 13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. (Psa. 39:10,13)
my days.
Psa. 62:9• 9Surely 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. 62:9)
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Psa. 78:33• 33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. (Psa. 78:33)
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Psa. 144:4• 4Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. (Psa. 144:4)
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Eccl. 6:11‑12• 11Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
 12For 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? (Eccl. 6:11‑12)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breatha.

JND Translation Notes

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Or, as often, "vanity." see Gen. 4.2.