Job 7:16
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity."
Word-by-Word Analysis
מָאַס
mâʼaç
to spurn; also (intransitively) to disappear
חָיָה
châyâh
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
נֶצַח
netsach
properly, a goal, i.e. the bright object at adistance travelled towards; hence (figuratively), splendor, or (subjectively) truthfulness, or (objective...
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
יוֹם
yôwm
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 asso...
הֶבֶל
hebel
emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
Key Terms in This Verse
נֶצַח netsach
properly, a goal, i.e. the bright object at adistance travelled towards; hence (figuratively), splendor, or (subjectively) truthfulness, or (objectively) confidence; but usually (adverbially), continu...
Study H5331 →הֶבֶל hebel
emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
Study H1892 →חָיָה châyâh
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
Study H2421 →יוֹם yôwm
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)
Study H3117 →Cross References
But 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 l...
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
And 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 ...
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Surely 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.
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
And 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 ...
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
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