Verse 1

My soule is cut of though I lyue, I wil powre out my coplaynte against my selfe, and will speake out of the very heauinesse of my soule.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:11 : 11 Therfore I wil not spare my mouth, but I will speake in the trouble of my spirite, and muse in the bitternesse of my mynde.
  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 But he him selfe went a dayes iourney into the wildernesse, and came and sat downe vnder a Iuniper tree, and desired for his soule that he might dye, and sayde: It is nowe enough O Lorde, take my soule, for I am not better then my fathers.
  • Num 11:15 : 15 If thou deale thus with me, kyll me I pray thee, if I haue founde fauour in thy sight, yt I see not my wretchednesse.
  • Job 9:21 : 21 For though I be an innocent and my conscience cleare, yet am I weery of my lyfe.
  • Job 10:15-16 : 15 If I haue done wickedly, wo is me therefore: If I haue done righteously, yet dare I not lift vp my head, so full am I of confusion, and see myne owne miserie. 16 And let it increase, hunte me as a lion, & returne and shew thy selfe maruaylous vpon me.
  • Job 14:13 : 13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, & keepe me secret vntyl thy wrath were past, and to appoynt me a time wherein thou mightest remember me.
  • Job 16:6-9 : 6 For all my wordes my sorowe wyll not ceasse: And though I holde my tongue, what am I eased? 7 But now that God hath sent me aduersitie, thou hast troubled al my congregation. 8 And that thou hast filled me with wrinckles my fleshe is recorde, and my leanenesse ryseth vp against me and beareth witnes thereof in my face. 9 His wrath hath torne me he hateth me, & gnasheth vpon me with his teeth: myne enemie loketh fiercely vpon me with his eyes. 10 They haue opened their mouthes wide vpon me, and smitten me vpon the cheeke dispitefully, they gather the selues together against me. 11 God hath shut me vp with the vngodly, and deliuered me into the handes of the wicked. 12 I was in wealth, but he hath brought me to nought: he hath taken me by the necke, he hath all to shaken me, and set me as a marke for him selfe. 13 His archers compasse me rounde about, he woundeth my raines, and doth not spare, my bowels hath he powred vpon the grounde. 14 He hath geuen me one wounde vpon an other, and is fallen vpon me lyke a giaunt. 15 I haue sowed a sackecloth vpon my skinne, and wallowed my head in the dust. 16 My face is withered with weeping, & in mine eyes is the shadowe of death.
  • Job 19:4 : 4 Be it that I haue erred in deede, myne errour then remaineth with my selfe.
  • Job 21:2-4 : 2 O heare diligently my wordes, and that shalbe in steede of your consolations, 3 Suffer me that I may speake, and when I haue spoken mocke on. 4 Is it for mans sake that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, shoulde not my spirite then be in sore trouble?
  • Ps 32:3-5 : 3 For whyle I helde my tongue: my bones consumed away through my dayly roaring. 4 For thy hande is heauie vpon me day and night: and my moysture is like the drouth in sommer. Selah. 5 Therfore I haue made knowen my faultes vnto thee, and my righteousnes haue I not hid: I sayd I will confesse my wickednes vnto God, and thou forgauest the vnrighteousnes of my sinne. Selah.
  • Isa 38:15 : 15 What shall I say? The Lorde hath made a promise to me, yea and he hym selfe hath perfourmed it: I shall therefore so long as I lyue remember this bitternesse of my lyfe.
  • Isa 38:17 : 17 Beholde, bitter as gall was my pensiuenesse, so sore longed I for health, and it was thy pleasure to deliuer my lyfe from the filthy pit: for thou it is O Lorde that hast cast all my sinnes behynde thy backe.
  • Jonah 4:3 : 3 And nowe O Lorde, take I beseche thee my lyfe from me: for it is better for me to dye, then to lyue.
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 And when the sunne rose, God prepared a seruent east winde, and the sunne beat vpon the head of Ionas that he fainted: and wished vnto his soule, that he might dye, and saide, It is better for me to dye, then to lyue.
  • Job 7:16 : 16 I can see no remedy, I shall liue no more: O spare me then, for my dayes are but vanitie.
  • Job 3:20-23 : 20 Wherefore is the light geuen to hym that is in miserie? & lyfe vnto them that haue heauy heartes? 21 Whiche long for death and finde it not, though they search more for it than for treasures: 22 Which reioyce exceedingly, and be glad when they can finde the graue, 23 From whom their endes are hyd, and consealed by God?
  • Job 5:15-16 : 15 But he deliuereth the poore from the sworde, from their threatninges, and from the violence of the mightie. 16 He is the hope of the poore, & the mouth of the wicked shalbe stopped.
  • Job 5:20 : 20 In hunger he shall saue thee from death, and when it is warre, from the power of the sworde.
  • Job 6:2-4 : 2 O that my complaynt were truely wayed, and my punishment layde in the balaunces together: 3 For nowe it woulde be heauier then the sande of the sea: and this is the cause, that my wordes fayle me. 4 For the arrowes of the almightie are vpon me, the poyson therof hath drunke vp my spirite, and the terrible feares of God are set against me.
  • Job 6:8-9 : 8 O that I might haue my desire, and that God woulde graunt me the thing that I long for: 9 O that God would begin and smite me, that he would let his hand go and take me cleane away:
  • Job 6:26 : 26 Do ye imagine to reproue wordes, that the talke of the afflicted shoulde be as the winde?