Verse 21

You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 16:9-9 : 9 I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes; 10 Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me. 11 God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers. 12 I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows. 13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth. 14 I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.
  • Job 10:14-17 : 14 That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin: 15 That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble. 16 And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me: 17 That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.
  • Job 13:25-28 : 25 Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way? 26 For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years; 27 And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps; 28 Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.
  • Job 6:9 : 9 If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!
  • Job 7:20-21 : 20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself? 21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.
  • Job 10:3 : 3 What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?
  • Job 19:6-9 : 6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net. 7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause. 8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark. 9 He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.
  • Job 19:22 : 22 Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?
  • Job 23:6 : 6 Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.
  • Ps 77:7-9 : 7 Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer? 8 Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing? 9 Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)
  • Ps 89:13 : 13 Yours is an arm of power; strong is your hand and high your right hand.
  • Jer 30:14 : 14 Your lovers have no more thought for you, they go after you no longer; for I have given you the wound of a hater, even cruel punishment;
  • 1 Pet 5:6 : 6 For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;