Job 7:15

Consequence of the preceding, Job 7:14.

chooseth strangling A sense of choking is one of the accompaniments of the disease, which is said to end sometimes in actual suffocation. Job refers to this symptom, saying that he is driven to desire that it might be really fatal. The parallel word deathin the next clause shews that this is what he is driven to wish for, but he selects this form of death as one incidental to his disease, and one with which he had perhaps felt himself more than once threatened.

death rather than my life lit. death rather thanthese my bones. So he describes the emaciated skeleton to which he was reduced.