Job Chapter 7 verse 15 Holy Bible
So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than `these' my bones.
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So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.
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So that my soul chooseth strangling, death, rather than my bones.
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So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
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So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
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So that my soul chooses strangling, Death rather than my bones.
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And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - So that my soul chooseth strangling; i.e. "so that I would prefer strangling to such horrid dreams," which are worse than any physical sufferings. Some see here a reference to suicide: but this is s very forced explanation. Suicide, as already observed, seems never even to have occurred to the thoughts of Job (see the comment on Job 6:8). And death rather than my life; literally, rather than my bones. Death, that is, would be preferable to such a life as he leads, which is that of a living skeleton.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) So that my soul maketh choice of strangling and death rather than a life like this. Literally, than these my bones, or, as some take it, a death by these my members: a death inflicted by myself, suicide.