Job 10:1

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Job 10:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 “I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

2 I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.

3 Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?

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Job 3:20

Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

Job 3:21

who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,

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who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?

Job 3:23

Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

Job 6:8

If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:

Job 6:9

that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!

Job 5:15

He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.

Job 5:16

So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

Job 5:20

In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

Job 9:21

Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

Job 14:13

If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!

Numbers 11:15

If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”

1 Kings 19:4

while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

Jonah 4:3

And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:8

As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Job 7:11

Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 19:4

Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.

Job 21:2

“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.

Job 21:3

Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.

Job 21:4

Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?

Job 10:15

If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.

Job 10:16

Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

Job 6:2

“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.

Job 6:3

For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas— no wonder my words have been rash.

Job 6:4

For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

Job 6:26

Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?

Job 16:6

Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

Job 16:7

Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

Job 16:8

You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

Job 16:9

His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.

Job 16:10

They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

Job 16:11

God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

Job 16:12

I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;

Job 16:13

His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

Job 16:14

He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.

Job 16:15

I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.

Job 16:16

My face is red with weeping, and deep shadows ring my eyes;

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When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

Psalms 32:4

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

Psalms 32:5

Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah

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What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

Isaiah 38:17

Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.