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I despise my life;מָאַסְתִּיI will notלֹאliveאֶחְיֶהforever.לְעֹלָםLet me alone,חֲדַל מִמֶּנִּיforכִּיmy daysיָמָיare a vapor.הֶבֶל
Job 7:16
Study it in the app“I despise my life; I will not live forever. Let me alone, for my days are a vapor.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 7:16, word by word
- I despise my lifeמָאַסְתִּיmaasti
reject
To regard something or someone as worthless and put it away.
Where else “maasti” appears- liveאֶחְיֶהechye
live
To have breath and remain in this world, not die.
Where else “echye” appears- foreverעֹלָםolam
forever
Time without end, beyond what a lifetime can see.
Where else “olam” appears- Let me aloneחֲדַלchadal
cease, stop
Stop doing something, cease; leave off.
Where else “chadal” appears- my daysיָמָyama
time
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yama” appears- are a vaporהֶבֶלhevel
vapor
A breath that passes and does not last; that brief is everything.
Where else “hevel” appears
The context
15so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
16 · This verse (above)
17What is a mortal, that you magnify him, and that you set your heart on him,