Job 7:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I loath it To wit, my life, last mentioned. I would not live alway In this world, if I might, no not in prosperity; for even such a life is but vanity; much less in this extremity of misery. Let me alone That is, withdraw thy hand from me, either, 1, Thy supporting hand, which preserves my life, and suffer me to die: or, rather, 2, Thy correcting hand, as this phrase signifies, Job 7:19. For my days are vanity My life is in itself, and in its best estate, a vain, unsatisfying, uncertain thing, empty of solid comfort, and exposed to real griefs, and therefore I would not be for ever tied to it. And it is a decaying and perishing thing, and will, of itself, quickly vanish and depart, and does not need to be forced from me by such exquisite torments.