¹⁶ I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone; for my days are but a breath.

¹ "My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

⁴ But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and 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.

¹³ Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go away, and be no more."

⁶ Look away from him, that he may rest, Until he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

²⁰ Aren't my days few? Cease then, Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

²¹ I am blameless. I don't regard myself. I despise my life.

⁹ Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

⁸ It happened, when the sun arose, that 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."

³ Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."

¹¹ For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

¹² 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?

⁴ Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

³³ Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, And their years in terror.

⁹ 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.

¹⁰ Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

²⁰ "Why is light given to him who is in misery, Life to the bitter in soul,

²¹ Who long for death, but it doesn't come; Dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

²² Who rejoice exceedingly, Are glad, when they can find the grave?

⁴⁶ 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?"