Job 16:6

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If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, what do I lose?

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  • Job 10:1 : 1 I am disgusted with my life; I will give voice to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Ps 88:15-18 : 15 Why, LORD, do you reject me and hide your face from me? 16 I have been afflicted and close to death since my youth; I have borne your terrors and am in despair. 17 Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me. 18 They surround me all day long like a flood; they have completely engulfed me.
  • Ps 77:1-9 : 1 For the Chief Musician, according to Jeduthun, a psalm of Asaph. 2 My voice cries out to God, and I will call aloud; my voice reaches God, and He listens to me. 3 In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out at night and did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted. 4 I remember God and moan; I meditate, and my spirit faints. Selah. 5 You have held my eyelids open; I am troubled and cannot speak. 6 I consider the days of old, the years long past. 7 I remember my song in the night; I meditate with my heart, and my spirit searches diligently. 8 Will the Lord reject forever and never again show His favor? 9 Has His mercy ceased forever? Has His promise come to an end for all generations?

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  • Job 16:2-5
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    86%

    2I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are all of you.

    3Will your words of wind never end? Or what provokes you to answer?

    4I could also speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

    5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips would bring you relief.

  • Job 6:8-11
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    8Oh, that my request would be granted, and that God would fulfill my hope.

    9That God would be willing to crush me, to let loose His hand and cut me off!

    10It would still be my comfort— I would even exult in the midst of unrelenting pain— for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

    11What is my strength, that I should hope? What is my end, that I should prolong my life?

  • Job 16:7
    77%

    7Surely now, God has worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.

  • Job 7:11
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    11Therefore, I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Job 9:27
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    27If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and smile,'

  • Jer 8:18
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    18My grief is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

  • Job 13:19
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    19Who can contend with me? For now, if I am silent, I will perish.

  • Job 10:20
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    20Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

  • Job 21:4
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    4Is my complaint directed to a man? Why then should my spirit not be impatient?

  • Isa 38:15
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    15What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He has done this. I will walk humbly all my years because of this anguish of my soul.

  • Ps 39:2
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    2I said, 'I will guard my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will keep a muzzle on my mouth while the wicked are in my presence.'

  • Job 10:1
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    1I am disgusted with my life; I will give voice to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Job 6:13
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    13Indeed, there is no help in me, and ability has been driven from me.

  • Job 6:2-3
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    2If only my grief could be weighed and my calamity placed together on the scales!

    3For now, it is heavier than the sands of the seas; that is why my words are impulsive.

  • Job 16:15-16
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    15I have sewn sackcloth over my skin and buried my strength in the dust.

    16My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death.

  • Job 23:2
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    2Even today my complaint is bitter; my suffering is heavier than my groaning.

  • Job 13:13
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    13Be silent and let me speak. Whatever happens to me, let it come!

  • Ps 38:17
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    17For I said, "Lest they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me."

  • Ps 6:6
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    6For in death, no one remembers You; in the grave, who can give You thanks?

  • Job 30:16
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    16And now my soul is poured out within me; days of suffering seize hold of me.

  • Job 9:18
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    18He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

  • Job 3:24
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    24For my sighing comes before my food, and my groanings pour out like water.

  • Ps 32:3
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    3When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

  • Ps 31:10
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    10Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eyes grow weak with sorrow, as do my soul and my body.

  • Jer 10:19
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    19Woe to me because of my brokenness! My wound is incurable. Yet I said, 'This is my suffering, and I must endure it.'

  • Jer 45:3
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    3You have said, 'Woe to me! The LORD has added sorrow to my pain. I am worn out from my groaning, and I find no rest.'

  • Job 19:2
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    2How long will you torment my soul and crush me with words?

  • Job 32:20
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    20Let me speak so that I may find relief; let me open my lips and answer.

  • Ps 38:8
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    8For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no health in my body.

  • Job 19:16
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    16I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I must plead with him with my own mouth.

  • Ps 143:4
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    4My spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart is appalled inside me.

  • Job 7:13
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    13When I think my bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,

  • Lam 3:17
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    17My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

  • Lam 1:16
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    16"Because of these things I weep; my eyes, my eyes flow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are desolate because the enemy has prevailed."

  • Ps 73:15-16
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    15If I had spoken out like that, I would have betrayed Your children.

    16When I tried to understand all this, it troubled me deeply.

  • Job 4:2
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    2If someone attempts to speak with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?

  • Ps 38:6
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    6My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness.

  • Job 13:15
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    15Though He slay me, yet I will hope in Him. Nevertheless, I will defend my ways before Him.

  • Ps 6:3
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    3Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am weak; heal me, LORD, for my bones are shaking with fear.

  • Jer 15:18
    70%

    18Why has my pain become perpetual, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will You indeed be to me like a deceptive stream, waters that are unreliable?

  • Job 30:27
    70%

    27My insides are in turmoil and never sit still; days of suffering confront me.