Cross references

Job 7:16

I loathe my life! I would not live forever.

Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Job 7:16 BSB

Job 7:16 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Kings 19:4 (5 votes) and Job 10:1 (5 votes). 21 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Genesis 27 to Revelation 9.

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Which verses does Job 7:16 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

  2. Job 10:15 votes

    “I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  3. Job 9:214 votes

    Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

  4. Job 14:64 votes

    look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

  5. Job 6:93 votes

    that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!

  6. Job 10:203 votes

    Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,

  7. Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

  8. Psalm 62:93 votes

    Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

  9. Jonah 4:83 votes

    As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

  10. Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”

  11. Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

  12. Jonah 4:32 votes

Which verses point to Job 7:16?

The 10 strongest of 21.