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Job 10:1

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

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ASV

My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

KJV

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
נָֽקְטָ֥הna.ke.Tahit loathesH5354 →
נַפְשִׁ֗יnaf.Shiself myH5315 →
בְּחַ֫יָּ֥יbe.Chai.Yai<in> life myH2416 →
אֶֽעֶזְבָ֣ה'e.'ez.VahI will let looseH5800 →
עָלַ֣י'a.Laion myselfH5921 →
שִׂיחִ֑יsi.Chicomplaint myH7879 →
אֲ֝דַבְּרָה֗'a.da.be.rahI will speakH1696 →
בְּמַ֣רbe.Marin [the] bitterness ofH4751 →
נַפְשִֽׁי׃naf.Shibeing myH5315 →

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Job 7:11Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.1 Samuel 1:10In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.1 Kings 19:4while 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.”Numbers 11:15If 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.”Job 16:6Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?Job 9:21Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.Jonah 4:8As 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 23:2“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.Proverbs 14:10The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.Job 5:20In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.Job 5:15–16He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.Job 13:13Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.Job 19:4Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.Job 10:15–16If 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 6:2–4“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.Job 6:26Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?Isaiah 38:17Surely 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.Job 14:13If 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!

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Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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