Job 7:15
13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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.
- 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!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 27:5
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Read in context2 Samuel 17:23
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
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