Job 7:11

World English Bible (2000)

"Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 40:9 : 9 I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
  • Job 10:1 : 1 "My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
  • 1 Sam 1:10 : 10 She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, and wept bitterly.
  • Job 21:25 : 25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
  • 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.
  • Matt 26:37-38 : 37 He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled. 38 Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me."
  • Luke 22:44 : 44 Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.
  • 2 Cor 2:4 : 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears, not that you should be made sorry, but that you might know the love that I have so abundantly for you.
  • Gen 42:21 : 21 They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us."
  • Ps 39:3 : 3 My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned: I spoke with my tongue:
  • 2 Kgs 4:27-28 : 27 When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, "Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me." 28 Then she said, "Did I desire a son of my lord? Didn't I say, Do not deceive me?"
  • Job 6:26 : 26 Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
  • Job 10:15 : 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.
  • Job 13:13 : 13 "Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
  • Job 16:6 : 6 "Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
  • Job 21:3-4 : 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?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 10:1-2
    2 verses
    85%

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

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

  • Job 7:12-13
    2 verses
    82%

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 10 Be 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.

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

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

  • Job 7:19-21
    3 verses
    76%

    19 How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

    20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

    21 Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

  • 6 "Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

  • Job 7:15-16
    2 verses
    75%

    15 so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

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

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

  • Job 9:27-28
    2 verses
    75%

    27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

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

  • 7 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

  • Job 13:13-14
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

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

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

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

  • Job 30:27-28
    2 verses
    74%

    27 My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me.

    28 I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

  • 10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

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

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

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

  • 20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.

  • 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.

  • 21 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

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

  • 25 Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?

  • 7 There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.

  • 13 That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • 6 I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

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

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

  • 13 From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Lam 1:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20 See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

    21 They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they shall be like me.

  • 10 because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

  • 20 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

  • 9 I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. I will see his righteousness.

  • 8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

  • 3 (For the length of my life is still in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);

  • 30 (yes, I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking his life with a curse);