Job 23:2

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Though my talke be this day in bitternesse, and my plague greater then my groning.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 10:1 : 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.
  • Job 11:6 : 6 That he might shewe thee the secretes of wysdome, howe thou hast deserued double according to right: Know therfore that God hath forgotten thee for thyne iniquitie.
  • Ps 32:4 : 4 For thy hande is heauie vpon me day and night: and my moysture is like the drouth in sommer. Selah.
  • Ps 77:2-9 : 2 In the tyme of my trouble I sought the Lorde: my hande all the nyght catched & ceassed not, my soule refused comfort. 3 I called to remembraunce God, and I was disquieted: I conferred with my selfe, and my spirite was wrapped in pensiuenesse. Selah. 4 Thou dydst kepe the watche of mine eies: I was amased & coulde not speake. 5 I dyd thynke vpon the dayes past: and on the yeres of the olde worlde. 6 I called to remembraunce my psalme, song on the musicall instrument in the nyght tyme: I communed with myne owne heart, & searched out my spirites. 7 What, wyll the Lorde forsake me for euer? wyll he be no more intreated to be fauourable? 8 Is his mercie cleane gone for euer? and is his promise made from one generation to another, come vtterly to an ende. 9 Hath God forgotten to be gratious? and will he shut vp his louing kindnesse in displeasure? Selah.
  • Lam 3:19-20 : 19 O remember yet my miserie and my trouble, the wormewood and the gall. 20 Yea thou shalt remember them, for my soule melteth away in me.
  • Job 6:2-3 : 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.
  • 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.

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  • 1 Iob aunswered, & said:

  • Job 6:1-3
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    1 But Iob aunswered, and sayde:

    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.

  • 3 O that I might know him, and finde him, and that I might come before his seate:

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 2 And Iob aunswered, and sayde:

  • 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 I am the man that thorowe the rodde of his wrath haue experience of miserie.

  • 24 For my sighes come before I eate, and my roringes are powred out like the water:

  • 6 I am become crooked, and am exceedingly pulled downe: I go a mourning all the day long.

  • 19 Alas howe am I hurt? alas howe paynefull are my scourges vnto me? for I consider this sorowe by my selfe, and I must suffer it.

  • Lam 1:12-13
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    12 Haue ye no regarde all ye that go foreby, beholde & see yf there be any sorowe lyke vnto mine, wherwith the Lorde hath troubled me in the day of his fearefull wrath.

    13 From aboue hath he sent downe a fire into my bones, and it burneth them cruelly: he hath layde a net for my feete, and throwen me wyde open, he hath made me desolate, so that I must euer be mournyng.

  • Job 27:1-2
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    1 And Iob proceeded and went foorth in his parable, saying,

    2 As God lyueth whiche hath taken away my iudgement, and the almightie that hath vexed my minde:

  • Job 19:1-2
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    1 Iob aunswered, and saide:

    2 How long wyll ye vexe my soule, and trouble me with wordes?

  • Lam 1:21-22
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    21 They heare my mournyng, but there is none that wyll comfort me: All myne enemies haue hearde of my trouble, and are glad therof because thou hast done it: and thou hast brought foorth the time which thou calledst, when they also shal be lyke vnto me.

    22 Let all their wickednesse come before thee, and do thou to them as thou hast done vnto me for all my trespasses: for my sorowe is very great, and my heart is heauy.

  • 14 All the day long I haue ben scourged: and chastened euery mornyng.

  • 17 Because I am disposed to a haltyng: and my sorowe is euer in my syght.

  • 21 Ueryly thus was my heart inflamed: thus was my reynes pricked.

  • 19 He chasteneth hym with sickenesse vpon his bedde, he layeth sore punishement vpon his bones:

  • 10 For my life is wasted with sorow, and mine eares with mourning: my strength fayleth me because of mine iniquitie, and my bones are putrified.

  • 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.

  • 10 Then shoulde I haue some comfort, yea I woulde desire him in my payne that he would not spare, for I wil not be against the wordes of the holy one.

  • 3 Against me is he turned, he turneth his hande dayly against me.

  • 6 For all my wordes my sorowe wyll not ceasse: And though I holde my tongue, what am I eased?

  • 2 I powred out before his face my cogitations: and I made a declaration of my trouble before his face.

  • 18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitternesse.

  • 18 I woulde haue had comfort against sorowe: but sorowe is come vpon me, and heauinesse vexeth my heart.

  • 6 In my right I shoulde be a lyer: my wounde is incurable without my fault.

  • 39 Wherefore then murmureth the liuing man? let hym murmure at his owne sinne.

  • 23 he afflicted my strength in the way, he shortened my dayes.

  • 13 When I say, My bed shal comfort me, I shall haue some refreshing by talking to my selfe vpon my couch:

  • 16 Therfore is my soule now powred out vpon me, and the dayes of my trouble haue taken hold vpon me.

  • 7 There the righteous might dispute with him, so shoulde I be deliuered for euer from my iudge.

  • 10 It was as a sworde in my bones, when myne enemies dyd cast me in the teeth: in saying dayly vnto me, where is nowe thy Lorde?

  • 2 For thyne arrowes sticke fast in me: and thy hande presseth me sore.

  • 1 Iob aunswered, and saide:

  • 2 I haue oft times heard such thinges: miserable geuers of comfort are ye all the sort of you.

  • 38 But if case be that my lande crye against me, or that the forowes thereof make any complaynt:

  • 19 He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like asshes and dust.

  • 5 He hath buylded rounde about me, and closed me in with gall and trauaile.

  • 3 Insomuch as thou thoughtest thus when thou wast wrytyng wo is me, the Lorde hath geuen me payne for my trauayle, I haue weeried my selfe with sighing, and haue founde no rest:

  • 10 Take thy plague away from me: I am euen consumed by the meanes of thy heauy hande.

  • 35 They haue beaten me shalt thou say and I was not sicke, they haue stricken me, and I felt it not: When I am well wakened, I wil go to the drinke again.

  • 27 If I say, I will forget my complayning, I will ceasse from my wrath, and comfort my selfe: