Job 21:4

King James Version 1611 (Original)

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

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  • Exod 6:9 : 9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
  • 1 Sam 1:16 : 16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
  • 2 Kgs 6:26-27 : 26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. 27 And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
  • Job 6:11 : 11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
  • Job 7:11-21 : 11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. 12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? 13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; 14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. 16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. 17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? 18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? 19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? 20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself? 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
  • Job 10:1-2 : 1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
  • Ps 22:1-3 : 1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. 3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
  • Ps 42:11 : 11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
  • Ps 77:3-9 : 3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. 5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. 6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. 7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? 8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
  • Ps 102:1 : 1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
  • Ps 142:2-3 : 2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble. 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
  • Matt 26:38 : 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.

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

    12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

  • Job 10:1-2
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    1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

    2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

  • 3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

  • 19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

  • 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

  • 2 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

  • 20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • Job 13:13-14
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    13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

    14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

  • Job 6:10-11
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    10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

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

  • 13 Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

  • 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

  • Job 7:20-21
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    20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

    21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

  • 13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

  • 6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

  • 21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

  • 14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

  • Job 9:18-19
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    18 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

    19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

  • 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

  • 20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.

  • 7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

  • 17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

  • 5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

  • 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

  • 2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

  • Job 23:4-5
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    4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

    5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

  • 14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

  • 38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

  • 4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

  • 8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

  • Job 27:2-3
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    2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

    3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

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  • 32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

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    1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

    2 Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

  • 5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

  • 2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.

  • 9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

  • 3 Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

  • 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

  • 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

  • 3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

  • 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.