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Job 7:15

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That I’d rather strangle in the bedclothes

than face this kind of life any longer.

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

so that I would choose strangling

and death rather than my bones.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

so that I prefer strangling and death,

rather than this body of mine.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

so that I prefer strangling—

death rather than life in this body.

NLTNew Living Translation

I would rather be strangled—

rather die than suffer like this.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

So my inner self will choose strangling—

death more than my existence.

KJV 1900King James Version

So that my soul chooseth strangling,

And death rather than my life.