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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16 (A)I loathe my life;
I would not live forever.
(B)Let me alone,
For (C)my days are but [a]a breath.

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  1. Job 7:16 Without substance, futile

But better than both
    is the one who has never been born,(A)
who has not seen the evil
    that is done under the sun.(B)

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Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

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(A)Yet, better than both is he who has never existed,
Who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

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Wherever I banish them,(A) all the survivors of this evil nation will prefer death to life,(B) declares the Lord Almighty.’

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And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts.

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Then (A)death shall be chosen rather than life by all the [a]residue of those who remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says the Lord of hosts.

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  1. Jeremiah 8:3 remnant