KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 7:15–17
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Job 7:15
15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
15So that my soule chooseth strangling: and death rather †then my life.
- Heb. then my bones.
Job 7:16
16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
16I loath it, I would not liue alway: let me alone, for my dayes are vanitie.
Job 7:17
17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
17*What is man, that thou shouldest magnifie him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart vpon him?
- Psal. 8.4. and 144.3. heb. 2.6.
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Job 7:15
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
strangling
The act of destroying life by stopping respiration.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The state of living; the period or manner of one's existence.
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Job 7:16
To hate or feel strong disgust toward.
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Having life; having respiration and other organic functions in operation, or in a capacity to operate; not dead; Having vegetable life; to continue in constantly or habitually.
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Always; continually, regularly, or throughout the time stated.
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To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain.
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Separately; by itself.
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Emptiness, worthlessness, transience, futile desire, or excessive self-regard.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Job 7:17
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To make great in esteem; to praise, exalt, or declare great.
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To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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From verse 15
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Open the full verse study23¶ And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
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Open the full verse study5And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
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Open the full verse study4¶ But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and 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.
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Open the full verse study1MY soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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Open the full verse study6Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
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Open the full verse study21Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
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Open the full verse study20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
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Open the full verse study9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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Open the full verse study8And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
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Open the full verse study13O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
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Open the full verse study9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
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Open the full verse study11¶ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
12For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
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Open the full verse study46And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
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Open the full verse study20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
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Open the full verse study3Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
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Open the full verse study4Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
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Open the full verse study10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
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Open the full verse study33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
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Open the full verse study6But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
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Open the full verse study4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
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Open the full verse study3Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
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Open the full verse study14If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
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Open the full verse study12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
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Open the full verse study14After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
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