Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 7:16

16 I loath it. I would not live alway: let me alone, for my days are vanity .

To wit, my life last mentioned.

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. Or, Let me not live for ever, lingring in this miserable manner, as if thou wouldest not suffer me to die, but hadst a design to perpetuate my torments. Or, let me not live out mine age, or the full time of my life, which by the course of nature, I might do; for so the Hebrew word Olam, is oft used: but cut me off, and that speedily.

i. e. 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 same phrase is used, v. 19.

Either 1. my life is in it self, and in its best estate a most vain, unsatisfying, uncertain thing: do not add this evil to it to make it miserable. Or, 2. My life is a vain, decaying, and perishing thing, it will of it self quickly vanish and depart, and doth not need to be forced from me by such exquisite torments.

Marginal references: Ch. 10. 1.; Ch. 10. 20. & 14. [illegible: 1+ letters]. Psal. 39. 13.