Job 7:15-16

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so that I prefer strangling^(a)—
death rather than life in this body.^(b)^(A)

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I give up! I will not live forever.
Leave me alone,^(B) for my days are a breath.^(c)

a. Job 7:15: Or suffocation

b. Job 7:15: Lit than my bones

c. Job 7:16: Or are futile

A. Job 7:15: Job 3:21; Jonah 4:3

B. Job 7:16: Job 7:19; Job 10:20; Psalm 39:13