14 Then fearest thou me [a]with dreams, and astonishest me with visions.

15 Therefore my soul [b]chooseth rather to be strangled and to die, than to be in my bones.

16 I abhor it: I shall not live always: [c]spare me then, for my days are but vanity.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 7:14 So that I can have no rest, night nor day.
  2. Job 7:15 He speaketh as one overcome with sorrow, and not of judgment, or of the examination of his faith.
  3. Job 7:16 Seeing my term of life is so short, let me have some rest and ease.

14 even then you frighten me with dreams
    and terrify(A) me with visions,(B)
15 so that I prefer strangling and death,(C)
    rather than this body of mine.(D)
16 I despise my life;(E) I would not live forever.(F)
    Let me alone;(G) my days have no meaning.(H)

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