Job 7:15

¹³ When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,

¹⁴ then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

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

¹⁷ What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,

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Sammenlign

ÅB: Derfor foretrekker min sjel å kveles - heller døden enn disse avmagrede ben!
OTB: Slik at min sjel ville foretrekke kvelning,
Døden fremfor min lidelse.
B1930: Derfor foretrekker min sjel å kveles - heller døden enn disse avmagrede ben!

BSB: so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.
KJV: So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
WEB: so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
ASV: So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones.
DARBY: So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones.
BLB: so that my soul would choose strangling [and] death rather than my bones.

Matthew 27:5
So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
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2 Samuel 17:23
When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.
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