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

46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, (A)“I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth; (B)if Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these who are the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

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Lord, (A)make me to know my end,
And what is the measure of my days,
That I may know how frail I am.

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Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my age is as nothing before You;
Certainly every man at his best state is but (A)vapor. Selah

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11 When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity,
You make his beauty (A)melt away like a moth;
Surely every man is vapor. Selah

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(A)Surely men of low degree are [a]a vapor,
Men of high degree are a lie;
If they are weighed on the scales,
They are altogether lighter than vapor.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 62:9 vanity

39 For (A)He remembered (B)that they were but flesh,
(C)A breath that passes away and does not come again.

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47 Remember how short my time (A)is;
For what (B)futility have You created all the children of men?

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(A)Man is like a breath;
(B)His days are like a passing shadow.

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15 I have seen everything in my days of vanity:

(A)There is a just man who perishes in his righteousness,
And there is a wicked man who prolongs life in his wickedness.

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14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? (A)It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

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