Job 21:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.

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  • Job 7:11 : 11 Job Remonstrates with God“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.
  • Job 9:18 : 18 He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.
  • Job 10:1 : 1 An Appeal for Revelation“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Job 20:23 : 23 “While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.
  • Prov 14:10 : 10 The heart knows its own bitterness, and with its joy no one else can share.
  • Eccl 6:2 : 2 God gives a man riches, property, and wealth so that he lacks nothing that his heart desires, yet God does not enable him to enjoy the fruit of his labor– instead, someone else enjoys it! This is fruitless and a grave misfortune.
  • Isa 38:15-17 : 15 What can I say? He has decreed and acted. I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief. 16 O Lord, your decrees can give men life; may years of life be restored to me. Restore my health and preserve my life.’ 17 “Look, the grief I experienced was for my benefit. You delivered me from the Pit of oblivion. For you removed all my sins from your sight.
  • Ezek 4:16-17 : 16 Then he said to me,“Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror 17 because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.
  • Ezek 12:18 : 18 “Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with anxious shaking.
  • 2 Sam 17:8 : 8 Hushai went on to say,“You know your father and his men– they are soldiers and are as dangerous as a bear out in the wild that has been robbed of her cubs. Your father is an experienced soldier; he will not stay overnight with the army.
  • 1 Kgs 17:12 : 12 She said,“As certainly as the LORD your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.”
  • Job 3:20 : 20 Longing for Death“Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,

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    17Surely, he ate in darkness every day of his life, and he suffered greatly with sickness and anger.

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    2God gives a man riches, property, and wealth so that he lacks nothing that his heart desires, yet God does not enable him to enjoy the fruit of his labor– instead, someone else enjoys it! This is fruitless and a grave misfortune.

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    14his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.

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    15so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.

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    25What the sluggard desires will kill him, for his hands have refused to work.

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    30Rather, each person will die for his own sins. The teeth of the person who eats the sour grapes will themselves grow numb.