Job 16:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Though I speak, my grief is not eased; and though I forbear, what am I relieved?

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  • 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.
  • Ps 88:15-18 : 15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up; while I suffer your terrors, I am distracted. 16 Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off. 17 They came around me daily like water; they have encircled me together. 18 Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.
  • Ps 77:1-9 : 1 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and He listened to me. 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; my hand was stretched out in the night and did not rest; my soul refused to be comforted. 3 I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. 4 You hold my eyes wide awake: 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 my own heart, and my spirit diligently searches. 7 Will the Lord cast off forever? and will He be favorable no more? 8 Is His mercy completely gone forever? Does His promise fail forevermore? 9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies? Selah.

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    2I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.

    3Will vain words ever end? Or what makes you bold enough to answer?

    4I too could speak as you do; if your soul were in my soul's place, I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

    5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would ease your grief.

  • Job 6:8-11
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    8Oh, that I might have my request and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

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

    10Then I should still have comfort; yes, I would harden myself in sorrow. Let him not spare, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

    11What is my strength, that I should hope? And what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

  • Job 16:7
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    7But now he has made me weary; you have made desolate all my company.

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    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.

  • Job 9:27
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    27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and console myself:

  • Jer 8:18
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    18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

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    19Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I keep silent, I shall die.

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

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

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    15What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

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    2I was silent and still, I held my peace even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

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    1My 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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    13Is not my help within me? And is wisdom driven quite from me?

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    2Oh, that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

    3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words are swallowed up.

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    15I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and defiled my horn in the dust.

    16My face is flushed with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

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    2Even today my complaint is bitter; my suffering is heavier than my groaning.

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    13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let happen to me what will.

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

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

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    16And now my soul is poured out within me; the days of affliction have seized me.

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    18He will not allow me to regain my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

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    24For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.

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    3When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all day long.

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

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    16When I thought to understand this, it was too painful for me;

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    3My soul is also greatly troubled: but You, O LORD, how long?

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    18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? will you be altogether to me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

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    27My insides boiled and did not rest: the days of affliction confronted me.