Job 23:2
“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
BSB
ASV
Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.
KJV
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
In his discourse Eliphaz proposed two changes against Job. First, that he had been punished because of his very great evil. Second, that he had doubted or even denied divine providence. Now men are often saddened when any charges are falsely made against them, and …
Even to-day is my complaint bitter - Job goes on to maintain his own innocence, and shows that he has derived neither conviction nor consolation from the discourses of his friends. He grants that his complaint is bitter; but states that, loud as it may be, the affliction which he endures is heavier than his complaints are loud. Mr. Good translates: “And still is my complaint rebellion?” Do ye construe my lamentations over my unparalleled sufferings as rebellion against God?
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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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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.
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,…
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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.
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In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.
I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O LORD, do know.
“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.
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Psalms 32:4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
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For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
Then the Ekronites assembled all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us…
