Job 6:3
But because it is heavier than the sand of the sea, that is why my words have been wild.
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Referenced Verses
- Prov 27:3 : 3 A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but vexation by a fool is more burdensome than the two of them.
- Matt 11:28 : 28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
- Job 23:2 : 2 “Even today my complaint is still bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.
- Job 37:19-20 : 19 Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness. 20 Should he be informed that I want to speak? If a man speaks, surely he will be swallowed up!
- Ps 40:5 : 5 O LORD, my God, you have accomplished many things; you have done amazing things and carried out your purposes for us. No one can thwart you! I want to declare them and talk about them, but they are too numerous to recount!
- Ps 77:4 : 4 You held my eyelids open; I was troubled and could not speak.
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- Job 6:1-22 verses82%
1Job Replies to Eliphaz Then Job responded:
2“Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too!
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4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.
- Job 3:24-252 verses75%
24For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.
25For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.
- Job 6:7-115 verses74%
7I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.
8A Cry for Death“Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for!
9And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
10Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
11What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?
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6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.
7ג(Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.
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23Job’s Assurance of Vindication“O that my words were written down, O that they were written on a scroll,
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16Job’s Despondency“And now my soul pours itself out within me; days of suffering take hold of me.
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20Should he be informed that I want to speak? If a man speaks, surely he will be swallowed up!
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4My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.
- Job 16:6-72 verses73%
6Abandonment by God and Man“But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking– how much of it goes away?
7Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.
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6know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net.
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19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
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13Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?
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2“Even today my complaint is still bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.
- Lam 3:16-183 verses72%
16ו(Vav) He ground my teeth in gravel; he trampled me in the dust.
17I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.
18So I said,“My endurance has expired; I have lost all hope of deliverance from the LORD.”
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4For my sins overwhelm me; like a heavy load, they are too much for me to bear.
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11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.
- Job 7:11-122 verses71%
11Job 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.
12Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?
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18He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.
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23For the calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I was powerless.
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19Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.
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3You threw me into the deep waters, into the middle of the sea; the ocean current engulfed me; all the mighty waves you sent swept over me.
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36Surely I would wear it proudly on my shoulder, I would bind it on me like a crown;
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6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
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9He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.
- Lam 3:53-542 verses70%
53They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me.
54The waters closed over my head; I thought I was about to die.
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18For I am full of words, and the spirit within me constrains me.
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13מ(Mem) He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper’s net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long.
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9Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
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2“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
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10For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.
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11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.
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15The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.
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6I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.
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20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
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12For 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.
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13his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.
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11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.