Job 30:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Job’s Despondency“And now my soul pours itself out within me; days of suffering take hold of me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 22:14 : 14 My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.
  • Ps 42:4 : 4 I will remember and weep! For I was once walking along with the great throng to the temple of God, shouting and giving thanks along with the crowd as we celebrated the holy festival.
  • Isa 53:12 : 12 So I will assign him a portion with the multitudes, he will divide the spoils of victory with the powerful, because he willingly submitted to death and was numbered with the rebels, when he lifted up the sin of many and intervened on behalf of the rebels.”
  • Ps 40:12 : 12 For innumerable dangers surround me. My sins overtake me so I am unable to see; they outnumber the hairs of my head so my strength fails me.
  • 1 Sam 1:15 : 15 But Hannah replied,“Not so, my lord! I am a woman under a great deal of stress. I haven’t drunk wine or beer. But I have poured out my soul before the LORD.
  • Job 3:24 : 24 For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.

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    14They come in as through a wide breach; amid the crash they come rolling in.

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    17Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.

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    27My heart is in turmoil unceasingly; the days of my affliction confront me.

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    3Certainly my enemies chase me. They smash me into the ground. They force me to live in dark regions, like those who have been dead for ages.

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  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.

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    4My heart beats violently within me; the horrors of death overcome me.

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    24For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.

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    31My harp is used for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.

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    21Yes, my spirit was bitter, and my insides felt sharp pain.