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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15 If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now—if I have found favor in Your sight—and (A)do not let me see my wretchedness!”

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that God would be willing to crush(A) me,
    to let loose his hand and cut off my life!(B)

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That it would please God to crush me,
That He would loose His hand and (A)cut me off!

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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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16 (A)I loathe my life;
I would not live forever.
(B)Let me alone,
For (C)my days are but [a]a breath.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 7:16 Without substance, futile

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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Job: I Would Plead with God

10 “My (A)soul loathes my life;
I will [a]give free course to my complaint,
(B)I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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  1. Job 10:1 Lit. leave on myself

19 You know how I am scorned,(A) disgraced and shamed;
    all my enemies are before you.

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19 You know (A)my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor;
My adversaries are all before You.

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18 Why did I ever come out of the womb(A)
    to see trouble(B) and sorrow
    and to end my days in shame?(C)

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18 (A)Why did I come forth from the womb to (B)see [a]labor and sorrow,
That my days should be consumed with shame?

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  1. Jeremiah 20:18 toil

When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die,(A) and said, “It would be better for me to die than to live.”

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And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he grew faint. Then he wished death for himself, and said, (A)It is better for me to die than to live.”

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