Job 6:8

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Oh, that my request would be granted, and that God would fulfill my hope.

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  • Job 6:11-13 : 11 What is my strength, that I should hope? What is my end, that I should prolong my life? 12 Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh made of bronze? 13 Indeed, there is no help in me, and ability has been driven from me.
  • Job 17:14-16 : 14 and I call the pit my father, and the worm my mother and sister, 15 then where is my hope? And who can see any hope for me? 16 Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?
  • Ps 119:81 : 81 My soul faints for Your salvation; I hope in Your word.

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    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 31:35-36
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    35Oh, that someone would hear me! I sign now my defense; let the Almighty answer me. Let my accuser write out his charges in a book.

    36Surely I would wear it on my shoulder, I would put it on like a crown.

  • Job 23:3-7
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    76%

    3If only I knew where to find him, so that I might come to his dwelling.

    4I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

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

    6Would he contend with me in his great power? No, he would instead give me strength.

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

  • Job 19:23
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    23Oh, that my words were written! Oh, that they were inscribed in a book!

  • Job 6:2-4
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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.

    4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison. The terrors of God are arrayed against me.

  • Job 6:7
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    7My soul refuses to touch them; they are like loathsome food to me.

  • Ps 38:9
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    9I am feeble and crushed; I groan because of the anguish of my heart.

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

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

  • Job 14:13
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    13If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me!

  • Job 5:8
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    8But I would seek God and place my cause before the Almighty.

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

  • Job 29:2
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    2Oh, that I were as in the months gone by, as in the days when God watched over me,

  • Prov 30:7
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    7Two things I ask of you, Lord; do not refuse me before I die:

  • Ps 55:6
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    6Fear and trembling have come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.

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    15I prefer strangling and death rather than this body of mine.

    16I despise my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

  • Job 11:5
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    5But oh, that God would speak and open His lips against you,

  • Job 34:36
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    36I wish that Job might be tested to the end for answering like wicked men.

  • Ps 39:13
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    13Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent to my tears, for I am a sojourner with You, a temporary resident like all my fathers.

  • Lam 1:22
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    22Let all their wickedness come before you; deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my sins. My groans are many, and my heart is faint.

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

  • Job 19:21
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    21Have pity on me, have pity on me, my friends, because the hand of God has struck me.

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

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    5Oh, that my ways were steadfast in keeping Your statutes!

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    3But I desire to speak to the Almighty, and I wish to reason with God.

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    24For my sighing comes before my food, and my groanings pour out like water.

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    8O LORD, by Your favor, You made my mountain stand strong; but when You hid Your face, I was terrified.

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    1If only I had a place to stay in the wilderness, a travelers' shelter, so that I might leave my people and go away from them. For they are all adulterers, a gathering of traitors.

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    22then let my shoulder fall from its socket, and let my arm be broken off at the joint.

  • Lam 3:8
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    8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.

  • Ps 6:2-3
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    2LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger, nor discipline me in Your wrath.

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    20My soul is crushed with longing for Your judgments at all times.

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    6I call on you, God, for you will answer me. Turn your ear to me and hear my words.

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

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    19He has cast me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

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    9You have not handed me over to the enemy, but you have set my feet in a spacious place.