Job 7:16

“I loathe [it], etc.] Or “them” f316, either his life, which was a weariness to him, or his bones, which were so painful and nauseous; or rather, “I am become loathsome”, to himself, to his servants, and to his friends, and even his breath was strange to his wife; or “being ulcerated, I pine and waste away” f317, and must in course be quickly gone: I would not live always; no man can or will; there is no man that lives but what shall see death, (<198948>Psalm 89:48); Job knew this, nor did he expect or desire it; and this was not his meaning, but that he desired that he might not live long, or to the full term of man’s life, yea, that he might die quickly; and indeed to a good man to die is…”

“Let me alone--that is, cease to afflict me for the few and vain days still left to me.”

“I loathe it - I loathe my life as it is now. It has become a burden and I desire to part with it, and to go down to the grave. There is, however, considerable variety in the interpretation of this. Noyes renders it, “I am wasting away.” Dr. Good connects it with the previous verse and understands by it, “death in comparison with my sufferings do I despise.” The Syriac is, - it fails to me, that is, I fail, or my powers are wasting away. But the Hebrew word מאס mâ'as means properly to loathe and contemn (see the note at Job 7:5), and the true idea here is expressed in the common version. The sense is, “my life is painful and offensive, and I wish to die.” I would not live alway - As Job used…”

“7:16 for my few remaining days: Literally for my days are a vapor (Hebrew hebel); see “All Is ‘Vapor’” Theme Note.”

“I loathe it: Job 3:20-22, Job 6:9, Job 10:1; Gen 27:46; Kg1 19:4; Jon 4:3, Jon 4:8 let me alone: Job 10:20, Job 14:6; Psa 39:10, Psa 39:13 my days: Psa 62:9, Psa 78:33, Psa 144:4; Ecc 6:11, Ecc 6:12 Job 7:17”