16 I despise my life;(A) I would not live forever.(B)
    Let me alone;(C) my days have no meaning.(D)

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16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

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10 “I loathe my very life;(A)
    therefore I will give free rein to my complaint
    and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.(B)

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10 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush,(A) sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life;(B) I am no better than my ancestors.”

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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.

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13 Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again
    before I depart and am no more.”(A)

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13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

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So look away from him and let him alone,(A)
    till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.(B)

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Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

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20 Are not my few days(A) almost over?(B)
    Turn away from me(C) so I can have a moment’s joy(D)

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20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

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21 “Although I am blameless,(A)
    I have no concern for myself;(B)
    I despise my own life.(C)

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21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

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that God would be willing to crush(A) me,
    to let loose his hand and cut off my life!(B)

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

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When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die,(A) and said, “It would be better for me to die than to live.”

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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.

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Now, Lord, take away my life,(A) for it is better for me to die(B) than to live.”(C)

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Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

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11 The more the words,
    the less the meaning,
    and how does that profit anyone?

12 For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days(A) they pass through like a shadow?(B) Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

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11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

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They are like a breath;(A)
    their days are like a fleeting shadow.(B)

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Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

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33 So he ended their days in futility(A)
    and their years in terror.

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33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

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