Job 7:11
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.
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- Ps 40:9 : 9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
- Job 10:1 : 1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- 1 Sam 1:10 : 10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.
- Job 21:25 : 25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
- Isa 38:15 : 15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
- Isa 38:17 : 17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
- Matt 26:37-38 : 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
- Luke 22:44 : 44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
- 2 Cor 2:4 : 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
- Gen 42:21 : 21 And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
- Ps 39:3 : 3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
- 2 Kgs 4:27-28 : 27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me. 28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?
- Job 6:26 : 26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
- Job 10:15 : 15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
- Job 13:13 : 13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
- Job 16:6 : 6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
- Job 21:3-4 : 3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
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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.
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4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
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15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
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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.
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19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
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- Job 7:19-213 verses76%
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?
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6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
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15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
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4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
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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?
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1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
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20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
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2 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
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10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
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2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
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16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
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18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
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20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
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18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
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21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
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2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
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25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
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7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
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13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?
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13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
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10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
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20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
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9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
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8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
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3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;
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30 Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.