Job 7:15
Good News Translation
until I would rather be strangled than live in this miserable body.

New Revised Standard Version
so that I would choose strangling and death rather than this body.

Contemporary English Version
I'd rather choke to death than live in this body.

New American Bible
So that I should prefer strangulation and death rather than my existence.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.

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So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.

chooseth.

2 Samuel 17:23 But Achitophel seeing that his counsel was not followed, saddled his ass, and arose and went home to his house and to his city, and putting his house in order, hanged himself, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

Matthew 27:5 And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed and went and hanged himself with an halter.

life.

Context
Job Continues: Life Seems Futile
14Thou wilt frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions. 15So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death.16I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.…
Cross References
Revelation 9:6
And in those days, men shall seek death and shall not find it. And they shall desire to die: and death shall fly from them.

Job 7:14
Thou wilt frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions.

Job 7:16
I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.

Jeremiah 8:3
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all that shall remain of this wicked kindred in all places, which are left, to which I have cast them out, saith the Lord of hosts.

Jonah 4:3
And he prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, is not this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? therefore I went before to flee into Tharsis: for I know that thou art a gracious and merciful God, patient, and of much compassion, and easy to forgive evil.

Job 7:14
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