Job 21:4

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Job 21:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

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

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

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

5 Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.

6 When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.

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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 7:12

Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?

Job 7:13

When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,

Job 7:14

then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

Job 7:15

so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

Job 7:16

I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Job 7:17

What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,

Job 7:18

that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?

Job 7:19

Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?

Job 7:20

If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You ?

Job 7:21

Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”

Job 10:1

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

Job 10:2

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

1 Samuel 1:16

Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”

Psalms 22:1

My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?

Psalms 22:2

I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.

Psalms 22:3

Yet You are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

Psalms 77:3

I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah

Psalms 77:4

You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.

Psalms 77:5

I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.

Psalms 77:6

At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:

Psalms 77:7

“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?

Psalms 77:8

Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time?

Psalms 77:9

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah

Psalms 102:1

Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come before You.

Psalms 142:2

I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him.

Psalms 142:3

Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.

Matthew 26:38

Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.”

2 Kings 6:26

As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”

2 Kings 6:27

He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress?”

Psalms 42:11

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

Exodus 6:9

Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.