Job 7:16

⁴But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

¹“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

⁶Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.

²¹I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

¹³Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”

⁹even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

⁹Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

²⁰Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

⁸When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

¹¹For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man? ¹²For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?