So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. Chooseth strangling - It is very likely that he felt, in those interrupted and dismal slumbers, an oppression and difficulty of breathing something like the incubus or nightmare; and, distressing as this was, he would prefer death by this means to any longer life in such miseries.
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Job 7:15
15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.b