"I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity."
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And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
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 LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.
I loathe it; I shall not live always: let me alone, for my days are a breath.
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
I lothe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone; for my days are but a breath.
I have wasted away -- not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days `are' vanity.