Job 23:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • Job 11:6 : 6 And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that [they are] double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee [less] than thine iniquity [deserveth].
  • Ps 32:4 : 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
  • Ps 77:2-9 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. 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.
  • Lam 3:19-20 : 19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. 20 My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
  • Job 6:2-3 : 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.
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Job 23:1
    82%

    1 ¶ Then Job answered and said,

  • Job 6:1-3
    3 verses
    79%

    1 ¶ But Job answered and said,

    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.

  • Job 23:3
    77%

    3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! [that] I might come [even] to his seat!

  • Job 10:1
    76%

    1 ¶ My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Job 21:4
    76%

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

  • Job 3:2
    74%

    2 And Job spake, and said,

  • Job 7:11
    74%

    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.

  • Lam 3:1
    74%

    1 ¶ I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

  • Job 3:24
    74%

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

  • Ps 38:6
    74%

    6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

  • Jer 10:19
    74%

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

  • Lam 1:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12 ¶ [Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.

    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.

  • Job 27:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 ¶ Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

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

  • Job 19:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 ¶ Then Job answered and said,

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

  • Lam 1:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21 They have heard that I sigh: [there is] none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done [it]: thou wilt bring the day [that] thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

    22 Let 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.

  • Ps 73:14
    73%

    14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

  • Ps 38:17
    72%

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

  • Ps 73:21
    72%

    21 ¶ Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

  • Job 33:19
    72%

    19 ¶ He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong [pain]:

  • Ps 31:10
    72%

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

  • Isa 38:15
    72%

    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.

  • Job 6:10
    72%

    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.

  • Lam 3:3
    72%

    3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day.

  • Job 16:6
    72%

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

  • Ps 142:2
    72%

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

  • Job 9:18
    72%

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

  • Jer 8:18
    72%

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

  • Job 34:6
    72%

    6 Should I lie against my right? my wound [is] incurable without transgression.

  • Lam 3:39
    72%

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

  • Ps 102:23
    72%

    23 ¶ He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

  • Job 7:13
    72%

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

  • Job 30:16
    71%

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

  • Job 23:7
    71%

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

  • Ps 42:10
    71%

    10 [As] with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where [is] thy God?

  • Ps 38:2
    71%

    2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

  • Job 21:1
    71%

    1 ¶ But Job answered and said,

  • Job 16:2
    71%

    2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all.

  • Job 31:38
    71%

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

  • Job 30:19
    71%

    19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

  • Lam 3:5
    71%

    5 He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.

  • Jer 45:3
    71%

    3 Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

  • Ps 39:10
    71%

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

  • Prov 23:35
    71%

    35 They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

  • Job 9:27
    71%

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