Job 7:15
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

Young's Literal Translation
And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.

King James Bible
So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.

Hebrew
so that I
נַפְשִׁ֑י (nap̄·šî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

would prefer
וַתִּבְחַ֣ר (wat·tiḇ·ḥar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 977: To try, select

strangling
מַחֲנָ֣ק (ma·ḥă·nāq)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4267: Strangling, suffocation

and death
מָ֝֗וֶת (mā·weṯ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin

over my life in this body.
מֵֽעַצְמוֹתָֽי׃ (mê·‘aṣ·mō·w·ṯāy)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6106: A bone, the body, the substance, selfsame

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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