Job 10:1

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ 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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  • Job 7:11 : 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.
  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I [am] not better than my fathers.
  • Num 11:15 : 15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
  • Job 9:21 : 21 [Though] I [were] perfect, [yet] would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
  • Job 10:15-16 : 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; 16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
  • Job 14:13 : 13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
  • Job 16:6-9 : 6 ¶ Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased? 7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. 8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. 9 He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me. 11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. 12 I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken [me] by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark. 13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. 14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant. 15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. 16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids [is] the shadow of death;
  • Job 19:4 : 4 And be it indeed [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
  • Job 21:2-4 : 2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. 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?
  • Ps 32:3-5 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. 5 I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
  • 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.
  • Jonah 4:3 : 3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for [it is] better for me to die than to live.
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, [It is] better for me to die than to live.
  • Job 7:16 : 16 I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.
  • Job 3:20-23 : 20 ¶ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul; 21 Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave? 23 [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
  • Job 5:15-16 : 15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. 16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
  • Job 5:20 : 20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
  • Job 6:2-4 : 2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. 4 For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
  • Job 6:8-9 : 8 ¶ Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for! 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
  • Job 6:26 : 26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 7:11-13
    3 verses
    85%

    11Therefore 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?

    13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

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

  • 15What 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.

  • 4As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?

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

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    77%

    9¶ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly.

    10For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

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

  • Job 9:27-28
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    27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:

    28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

  • 16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

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

  • Ps 143:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

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

  • Job 7:15-16
    2 verses
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    15So that my soul chooseth strangling, [and] death rather than my life.

    16I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.

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

  • 3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

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

  • Job 6:9-10
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    75%

    9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

    10Then 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.

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

  • Job 13:13-15
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    74%

    13¶ Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will].

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

    15Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

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

  • 2[As] God liveth, [who] hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, [who] hath vexed my soul;

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

  • 2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

  • Job 16:6-7
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    73%

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

    7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

  • 3Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for [it is] better for me to die than to live.

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    3My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?

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

  • 17For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me.

  • 10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

  • 2Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;

  • 20¶ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;

  • 19Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this [is] a grief, and I must bear it.

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    6I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

  • 9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • 10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

  • 18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

  • 22Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs [are] many, and my heart [is] faint.

  • 3I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

  • 11Why 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.

  • 5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.

  • 4My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.