Job 7:16

“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,

I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”

Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;

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

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.

All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

TEKEL: you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn’t please Isaac, his father.

But 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 Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

both low and high, rich and poor together.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

Don’t put your trust in princes, in a son of man in whom there is no help.

A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

Yahweh says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man, relies on strength of flesh, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

Enoch walked with God, and he was not found, for God took him.

Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

Jacob, their father, said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children! Joseph is no more, Simeon is no more, and you want to take Benjamin away. All these things are against me.”

I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.

She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.

Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?” Yahweh said, “They will deliver you up.”

Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

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

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

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

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

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

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

“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

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

I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”

It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in princes.

The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

For 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?

What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

The multitudes who went in front of him, and those who followed, kept shouting, “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?”

But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.

Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

Surely 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.

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

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