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Job 7:15

World English Bible

so that my soul chooses strangling,
death rather than my bones.

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Job 7:15 in other translations

So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.

Job 7:15 · American Standard Version

Job 7:15 in context

  1. 13When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me.
    My couch will ease my complaint;’
  2. 14then you scare me with dreams,
    and terrify me through visions:
  3. 15so that my soul chooses strangling,
    death rather than my bones.
  4. 16I loathe my life.
    I don’t want to live forever.
    Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
  5. 17What is man, that you should magnify him,
    that you should set your mind on him,