Job 23:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Also -- to-day `is' my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 10:1 : 1 My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Job 11:6 : 6 And declare to thee secrets of wisdom, For counsel hath foldings. And know thou that God forgetteth for thee, `Some' of thine iniquity.
  • Ps 32:4 : 4 When by day and by night Thy hand is heavy upon me, My moisture hath been changed Into the droughts of summer. Selah.
  • Ps 77:2-9 : 2 In a day of my distress the Lord I sought, My hand by night hath been spread out, And it doth not cease, My soul hath refused to be comforted. 3 I remember God, and make a noise, I meditate, and feeble is my spirit. Selah. 4 Thou hast taken hold of the watches of mine eyes, I have been moved, and I speak not. 5 I have reckoned the days of old, The years of the ages. 6 I remember my music in the night, With my heart I meditate, and my spirit doth search diligently: 7 To the ages doth the Lord cast off? Doth He add to be pleased no more? 8 Hath His kindness ceased for ever? The saying failed to all generations? 9 Hath God forgotten `His' favours? Hath He shut up in anger His mercies? Selah.
  • Lam 3:19-20 : 19 Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall! 20 Remember well, and bow down doth my soul in me.
  • Job 6:2-3 : 2 O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together! 3 For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash.
  • Job 7:11 : 11 Also I -- I withhold not my mouth -- I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.

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