Job 3:20

Geneva Bible (1560)

Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?

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  • Job 7:15-16 : 15 Therefore my soule chuseth rather to be strangled and to die, then to be in my bones. 16 I abhorre it, I shall not liue alway: spare me then, for my dayes are but vanitie.
  • Jer 20:18 : 18 How is it, that I came forth of the wombe, to see labour and sorowe, that my dayes shoulde be consumed with shame?
  • Prov 31:6 : 6 Giue ye strong drinke vnto him that is readie to perish, and wine vnto them that haue griefe of heart.
  • 1 Sam 1:10 : 10 And she was troubled in her minde, and prayed vnto the Lord, and wept sore:
  • 2 Kgs 4:27 : 27 And when shee came to the man of God vnto the moutaine, she caught him by his feete: and Gehazi went to her, to thrust her away: but the man of God said, Let her alone: for her soule is vexed within her, and the Lorde hath hid it from me, and hath not told it mee.
  • Job 3:16 : 16 Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?
  • Job 6:9 : 9 That is, that God would destroy me: that he would let his hand go, and cut me off.
  • Job 33:28 : 28 He will deliuer his soule from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
  • Job 33:30 : 30 That he may turne backe his soule from the pit, to be illuminate in the light of the liuing.

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