Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • 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 deal thus with me, please kill me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
  • Job 9:21 : 21 I am blameless. I don't regard 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 shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
  • Isa 38:17 : 17 Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] I had great bitterness: But you have in love to 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; Dig for it more than for hidden treasures, 22 Who rejoice exceedingly, Are glad, when they can find the grave? 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, 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, Seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?