Job 23:2

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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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.

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  • 1 Then answered and said,

  • Job 6:1-3
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    1 But 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.

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

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

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

  • 2 And spake, and said,

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

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

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

  • 19 Woe 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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    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 desote and faint all the day.

  • Job 27:1-2
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    1 Moreover continued his parable, and said,

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

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    1 Then answered and said,

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    21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are gd 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 1 But answered and said,

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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