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.
Psalm 40:9
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9 I have told the glad news of deliverance[a]
in (A)the great congregation;
behold, I have not (B)restrained my lips,
(C)as you know, O Lord.
Footnotes
- Psalm 40:9 Hebrew righteousness; also verse 10
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.
1 Samuel 1:10
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10 She was (A)deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly.
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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.
Job 21:25
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25 Another dies in (A)bitterness of soul,
never having tasted of prosperity.
2 Corinthians 2:4
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4 For (A)I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.
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Luke 22:44
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44 And (A)being in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.[a]
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- Luke 22:44 Some manuscripts omit verses 43 and 44
Matthew 26:37-38
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37 And taking with him (A)Peter and (B)the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. 38 Then he said to them, (C)“My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and (D)watch[a] with me.”
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- Matthew 26:38 Or keep awake; also verses 40, 41
Job 16:6
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6 “If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,
and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
Job 13:13
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13 “Let me have silence, and I will speak,
and let come on me what may.
Job 10:15
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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.
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?
2 Kings 4:27-28
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27 And when she came (A)to the mountain to the man of God, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came to push her away. But the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for she is in bitter distress, and the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me.” 28 Then she said, “Did I ask my lord for a son? (B)Did I not say, ‘Do not deceive me?’”
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Genesis 42:21
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21 Then they said to one another, (A)“In truth we are guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us and we did not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.”
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Psalm 39:3
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3 My (A)heart became hot within me.
As I mused, the fire burned;
then I spoke with my tongue:
Job 21:3-4
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3 Bear with me, and I will speak,
and after I have spoken, (A)mock on.
4 As for me, is my (B)complaint against man?
Why should I not be impatient?
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