Job 10:1
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Job Continues: A Plea to God
10 “I (A)loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my (B)complaint;
I will speak in (C)the bitterness of my soul.
Job 7:11
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11 “Therefore I will not (A)restrain my mouth;
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
I will (B)complain in (C)the bitterness of my soul.
1 Kings 19:4
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4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. (A)And he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
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Job 9:21
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Numbers 11:15
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15 If you will treat me like this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”
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Jonah 4:8
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8 When the sun rose, God appointed a scorching (A)east wind, (B)and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he (C)was faint. And he asked that he might die and said, (D)“It is better for me to die than to live.”
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Jonah 4:3
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3 (A)Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, (B)for it is better for me to die than to live.”
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Isaiah 38:17
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17 (A)Behold, it was for my welfare
that I had great bitterness;
(B)but in love you have delivered my life
from the pit of destruction,
(C)for you have cast all my sins
behind your back.
Isaiah 38:15
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15 What shall I say? For he has spoken to me,
and he himself has done it.
(A)I walk slowly all my years
because of the bitterness of my soul.
Psalm 32:3-5
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3 For when I kept silent, my (A)bones wasted away
through my (B)groaning all day long.
4 For day and night your (C)hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up[a] as by the heat of summer. Selah
5 I (D)acknowledged my sin to you,
and I did not cover my iniquity;
I said, “I (E)will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
Footnotes
- Psalm 32:4 Hebrew my vitality was changed
Job 21:2-4
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2 (A)“Keep listening to my words,
and let this be your comfort.
3 Bear with me, and I will speak,
and after I have spoken, (B)mock on.
4 As for me, is my (C)complaint against man?
Why should I not be impatient?
Job 19:4
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4 And even if it be true that I have erred,
my error remains with myself.
Job 16:6-16
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6 “If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,
and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
7 Surely now God has worn me out;
(A)he has[a] made desolate all my company.
8 And he has shriveled me up,
which is (B)a witness against me,
and my (C)leanness has risen up against me;
it testifies to my face.
9 He has (D)torn me in his wrath (E)and hated me;
he has (F)gnashed his teeth at me;
my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.
10 Men have (G)gaped at me with their mouth;
they have (H)struck me insolently on the cheek;
they (I)mass themselves together against me.
11 God gives me up to the ungodly
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
12 I was at ease, and he broke me apart;
he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces;
he set me up as his (J)target;
13 his (K)archers surround me.
He slashes open my kidneys (L)and does not spare;
he (M)pours out my gall on the ground.
14 He breaks me with (N)breach upon breach;
he (O)runs upon me like a warrior.
15 I have sewed (P)sackcloth upon my skin
and have laid (Q)my strength (R)in the dust.
16 My face is red with weeping,
and on my eyelids is (S)deep darkness,
Job 14:13
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13 Oh that you would (A)hide me in (B)Sheol,
that you would (C)conceal me (D)until your wrath be past,
that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
Job 10:15-16
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15 (A)If I am guilty, woe to me!
If I am (B)in the right, I cannot lift up my head,
for I am filled with disgrace
and (C)look on my affliction.
16 And were my head lifted up,[a] you would hunt me like (D)a lion
and again work (E)wonders against me.
Footnotes
- Job 10:16 Hebrew lacks my head
Job 7:16
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Job 6:26
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26 Do you think that you can reprove words,
when the speech of a despairing man is (A)wind?
Job 6:8-9
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8 “Oh that I might have my request,
and that God would fulfill my hope,
9 that it would (A)please God to crush me,
that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
Job 6:2-4
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2 “Oh that my vexation were weighed,
and all my calamity laid in the balances!
3 For then it would be heavier than (A)the sand of the sea;
therefore my words have been rash.
4 For (B)the arrows of the Almighty are in me;
my spirit drinks their poison;
the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Job 5:20
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20 (A)In famine he will redeem you from death,
and in war from the power of the sword.
Job 5:15-16
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15 But he (A)saves the needy from the sword of their mouth
and from the hand of the mighty.
16 So the poor have hope,
and (B)injustice shuts her mouth.
Job 3:20-23
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20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery,
and life to (A)the bitter in soul,
21 who (B)long for death, but it comes not,
and dig for it more than for (C)hidden treasures,
22 who rejoice exceedingly
and are glad when they find the grave?
23 Why is light given to a man whose (D)way is hidden,
whom God has (E)hedged in?
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