Job 10:1

World English Bible (2000)

"My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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  • Job 7:11 : 11 "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers."
  • Num 11:15 : 15 If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don't let me see my wretchedness."
  • Job 9:21 : 21 I am blameless. I don't respect myself. I despise my life.
  • Job 10:15-16 : 15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction. 16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
  • Job 14:13 : 13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
  • Job 16:6-9 : 6 "Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased? 7 But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company. 8 You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face. 9 He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me. 10 They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me. 11 God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked. 12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target. 13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground. 14 He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant. 15 I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust. 16 My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
  • Job 19:4 : 4 If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
  • Job 21:2-4 : 2 "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation. 3 Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on. 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?
  • Ps 32:3-5 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah. 5 I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
  • Isa 38:15 : 15 What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
  • Isa 38:17 : 17 Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
  • Jonah 4:3 : 3 Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."
  • Job 7:16 : 16 I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
  • Job 3:20-23 : 20 "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul, 21 Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, 22 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
  • Job 5:15-16 : 15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. 16 So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
  • Job 5:20 : 20 In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.
  • Job 6:2-4 : 2 "Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash. 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.
  • Job 6:8-9 : 8 "Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for, 9 even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
  • Job 6:26 : 26 Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

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  • Job 7:11-13
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    11"Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

    12Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

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

  • Job 10:2
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    2I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

  • Isa 38:15
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    15What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

  • Job 21:4
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    4As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

  • Job 9:18
    77%

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

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

    10For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away.

  • Job 10:20
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    20Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • Job 9:27-28
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    27If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

    28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

  • Job 30:16
    76%

    16"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

  • Job 23:2
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    2"Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

    4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

  • Job 7:15-16
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    15so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

    16I loathe my life. I don't want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

  • Job 13:19
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    19Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

  • Ps 88:3
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    3For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

  • Ps 142:2
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    2I pour out my complaint before him. I tell him my troubles.

  • Job 6:9-10
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    9even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

    10Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 17:1
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    1"My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

  • Job 13:13-15
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    74%

    13"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

    14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

    15Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

  • Job 3:24
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    24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

  • Job 27:2
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    2"As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.

  • Jer 8:18
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    18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

  • Ps 13:2
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    2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

  • Job 16:6-7
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    6"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

    7But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

  • Jonah 4:3
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    3Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."

  • Ps 6:3
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    3My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh--how long?

  • Job 19:2
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    2"How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

  • Ps 38:17
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    17For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me.

  • Isa 38:10
    72%

    10I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."

  • Ps 55:2
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    2Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,

  • Job 3:20
    72%

    20"Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

  • Jer 10:19
    72%

    19Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.

  • Ps 6:6
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    6I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

  • Ps 42:9
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    9I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

  • Ps 39:10
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    10Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

  • Job 10:18
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    18"'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

  • Lam 1:22
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    22Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

  • Ps 77:3
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    3I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

  • Ps 42:11
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    11Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.

  • Ps 102:5
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    5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

  • Ps 55:4
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    4My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.