My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. {weary...: or, cut off while I live}

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. {for himself: Heb. for his life}

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

Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. {rest: Heb. cease}

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

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

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. {altogether: or, alike}

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

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. {vehement: or, silent}

Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. {blow: Heb. conflict}

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

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.

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter {in} soul;

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

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?

For he remembered that they {were but} flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

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?

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. {weary...: or, cut off while I live}

{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. {rest: Heb. cease}

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.