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Job 7:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

" I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. "

Job 7:16

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14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

15 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?

18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

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From This Chapter

Job 7:1

"Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?"

Job 7:2

"As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:"

Job 7:3

"So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me."

Job 7:4

"When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day."

Job 7:5

"My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome."

Job 7:6

"My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope."

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