15 (A)So if You are going to deal with me this way, please kill me now, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my misery.”

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15 If this is how you are going to treat me, please go ahead and kill me(A)—if I have found favor in your eyes—and do not let me face my own ruin.”

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But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree; and (A)he asked for himself to die, and said, “Enough! Now, Lord, take my [a]life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

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  1. 1 Kings 19:4 Lit soul

while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush,(A) sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life;(B) I am no better than my ancestors.”

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16 I [a](A)waste away; I will not live forever.
Leave me alone, (B)for my days are only a breath.

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  1. Job 7:16 Or loathe

16 I despise my life;(A) I would not live forever.(B)
    Let me alone;(C) my days have no meaning.(D)

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21 I am (A)guiltless;
I do not take notice of myself;
I (B)reject my life.

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21 “Although I am blameless,(A)
    I have no concern for myself;(B)
    I despise my own life.(C)

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Job Despairs of God’s Dealings

10 [a](A)I am disgusted with my own life;
I will express (B)my complaint freely;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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  1. Job 10:1 Lit My soul loathes

10 “I loathe my very life;(A)
    therefore I will give free rein to my complaint
    and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.(B)

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