Job 21:4

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Is my complaint directed to a man? Why then should my spirit not be impatient?

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  • Exod 6:9 : 9 Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and harsh slavery.
  • 1 Sam 1:16 : 16 Do not consider your servant a worthless woman. It is out of my great sorrow and distress that I have been speaking until now.'
  • 2 Kgs 6:26-27 : 26 As the king of Israel was walking along the city wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help me, my lord the king!" 27 He answered, "If the LORD does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?"
  • Job 6:11 : 11 What is my strength, that I should hope? What is my end, that I should prolong my life?
  • Job 7:11-21 : 11 Therefore, I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. 12 Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you put me under guard? 13 When I think my bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint, 14 then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions. 15 I prefer strangling and death rather than this body of mine. 16 I despise my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath. 17 What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention, 18 that you examine them every morning and test them every moment? 19 Will you never look away from me or leave me alone till I swallow my spit? 20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you? 21 Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.
  • Job 10:1-2 : 1 I am disgusted with my life; I will give voice to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul. 2 I will say to God: Do not condemn me; tell me why You contend with me.
  • Ps 22:1-3 : 1 For the director, to the tune of 'The Doe of the Morning,' a psalm of David. 2 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Far from saving me, from the words of my groaning. 3 My God, I call out by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.
  • Ps 42:11 : 11 With crushing pain in my bones, my enemies taunt me, saying to me all day long, 'Where is your God?'
  • Ps 77:3-9 : 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?
  • Ps 102:1 : 1 A prayer of an afflicted person, when they are overwhelmed and pour out their complaint before the LORD.
  • Ps 142:2-3 : 2 I cry out to the LORD with my voice; with my voice I plead for mercy to the LORD. 3 I pour out my complaint before Him; I declare my troubles to Him.
  • Matt 26:38 : 38 Then He said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me."

Similar Verses (AI)

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

    12 Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you put me under guard?

  • Job 10:1-2
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    1 I am disgusted with my life; I will give voice to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.

    2 I will say to God: Do not condemn me; tell me why You contend with me.

  • Job 21:3
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    3 Bear with me while I speak, and after I have spoken, you may mock.

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

  • Lam 3:39
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    39 Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?

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

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

  • Job 13:13-14
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    13 Be silent and let me speak. Whatever happens to me, let it come!

    14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands?

  • Job 6:10-11
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    10 It 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.

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

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

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

  • Job 7:20-21
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    20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?

    21 Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.

  • Job 15:13
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    13 That you turn your spirit against God and let words escape from your mouth?

  • Job 16:6
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    6 If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, what do I lose?

  • Job 16:21
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    21 Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as one does for his neighbor.

  • Job 31:14
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    14 what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when He calls me to account?

  • Job 9:18-19
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    18 He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

    19 If it is a matter of strength, He is mighty! And if it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

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

  • Job 37:20
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    20 Should it be told to Him that I would speak? Or should a man say that he would be swallowed up?

  • Job 23:7
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    7 There the upright could reason with him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • Job 4:17
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    17 Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be purer than his Maker?

  • Job 21:5
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    5 Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.

  • Job 13:24
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    24 Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

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

  • Job 23:4-5
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    4 I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

    5 I would know the words he would answer me with and understand what he would say to me.

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    14 How then can I answer Him? I would choose my words carefully in His presence.

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    38 If my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,

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    4 My spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart is appalled inside me.

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    8 But I would seek God and place my cause before the Almighty.

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    2 As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,

    3 as long as my breath remains in me and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,

  • Job 40:8
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    8 Would you indeed annul My justice? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?

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    32 For He is not a man, like me, that I might answer Him, that we might go to court together.

  • Job 17:1-2
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    1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded away, and the grave is ready for me.

    2 Surely mockers are with me, and my eye must dwell on their provocations.

  • Job 19:5
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    5 If indeed you are exalting yourselves over me and using my disgrace to argue against me,

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    2 I cry out to the LORD with my voice; with my voice I plead for mercy to the LORD.

  • Job 27:9
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    9 Will God listen to his cry when distress comes upon him?

  • Job 18:3
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    3 Why are we regarded as animals and considered unclean in your eyes?

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    7 Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.

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    18 My grief is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

  • Job 20:3
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    3 I hear a rebuke that dishonors me, and my understanding prompts me to reply.

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    1 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of His wrath.