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Job 7:16BSB·author unknown

I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Matthew Henry Presbyterian @wholebiblehenry

Job, observing perhaps that his friends, though they would not interrupt him in his discourse, yet began to grow weary, and not to heed much what he said, here turns to God, and speaks to him. If men will not hear us, God will; if men cannot help us, he can; for his arm is not shortened, neither is his ear heavy.

Commenting on Job 7:7-16

John Gill Reformed Baptist @doctorgill

I loathe it,.... Or "them" (k), either his life, which was a weariness to him, or his bones, which were so painful and nauseous; or rather, "I am become loathsome", to himself, to his servants, and to his friends, and even his breath was strange to his wife; or "being ulcerated, I pine and waste away" (l), and must in course be quickly gone: I...

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Reformed @jfbcommentary

Let me alone--that is, cease to afflict me for the few and vain days still left to me.