Job 23:2

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Job 23:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Then Job answered:

2 “Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

3 If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.

4 I would plead my case before Him and fill my mouth with arguments.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 6:2

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

Job 10:1

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

Lamentations 3:19

Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

Lamentations 3:20

Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.

Psalms 77:2

In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.

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

Job 11:6

and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.