Verse 1

My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • 1 Kgs 19:4 : 4 and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, `Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I `am' not better than my fathers.'
  • Num 11:15 : 15 and if thus Thou art doing to me -- slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.'
  • Job 9:21 : 21 Perfect I am! -- I know not my soul, I despise my life.
  • Job 10:15-16 : 15 If I have done wickedly -- wo to me, And righteously -- I lift not up my head, Full of shame -- then see my affliction, 16 And it riseth -- as a lion Thou huntest me. And Thou turnest back -- Thou shewest Thyself wonderful in me.
  • Job 14:13 : 13 O that in Sheol Thou wouldst conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.
  • Job 16:6-9 : 6 If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me? 7 Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company, 8 And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth. 9 His anger hath torn, and he hateth me, He hath gnashed at me with his teeth, My adversary sharpeneth his eyes for me. 10 They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves. 11 God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over. 12 At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark. 13 Go round against me do his archers. He splitteth my reins, and spareth not, He poureth out to the earth my gall. 14 He breaketh me -- breach upon breach, He runneth upon me as a mighty one. 15 Sackcloth I have sewed on my skin, And have rolled in the dust my horn. 16 My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids `is' death-shade.
  • Job 19:4 : 4 And also -- truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.
  • Job 21:2-4 : 2 Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation. 3 Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking -- ye may deride. 4 I -- to man `is' my complaint? and if `so', wherefore May not my temper become short?
  • Ps 32:3-5 : 3 When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day. 4 When by day and by night Thy hand is heavy upon me, My moisture hath been changed Into the droughts of summer. Selah. 5 My sin I cause Thee to know, And mine iniquity I have not covered. I have said, `I confess concerning My transgressions to Jehovah,' And Thou -- Thou hast taken away, The iniquity of my sin. Selah.
  • Isa 38:15 : 15 -- What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.
  • Isa 38:17 : 17 Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.
  • Jonah 4:3 : 3 And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better `is' my death than my life.'
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, `Better `is' my death than my life.'
  • Job 7:16 : 16 I have wasted away -- not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days `are' vanity.
  • Job 3:20-23 : 20 Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul? 21 Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures. 22 Who are glad -- unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave. 23 To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?
  • Job 5:15-16 : 15 And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy, 16 And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.
  • Job 5:20 : 20 In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword.
  • Job 6:2-4 : 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. 4 For arrows of the Mighty `are' with me, Whose poison is drinking up my spirit. Terrors of God array themselves `for' me!
  • Job 6:8-9 : 8 O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope! 9 That God would please -- and bruise me, Loose His hand and cut me off!
  • Job 6:26 : 26 For reproof -- do you reckon words? And for wind -- sayings of the desperate.