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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19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
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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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1 ¶ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves [are ready] for me.
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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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20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
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2 I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.
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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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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.