Job 7:16

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

¹⁵ so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

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,

¹⁸ that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
KJV: I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
WEB: I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
ASV: I loathe [my life]; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.
DARBY: I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath.
BLB: I loathe—I would not live forever! Cease from me, for my days are vapor.

ÅB: Jeg er kjed av dette; jeg lever ikke evindelig; la meg være, for mine dager er et pust.
OTB: Jeg svinner hen; jeg vil ikke leve for alltid.
La meg være, for mine dager er bare et pust.
B1930: Jeg er kjed av dette; jeg lever ikke evindelig; la mig være, for mine dager er et pust.

1 Kings 19:4
while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
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Job 10:1
“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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Job 9:21
Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
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Job 14:6
look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
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Psalms 62:9
Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
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Job 10:20
Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,
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Job 6:9
that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
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Psalms 39:13
Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
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