Job 10:1

Weary of life, Job resolves to pour out his complaint and speak from bitterness of soul. It marks a turn to address God directly and unreservedly.

Cross-references · 21

• 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 Kgs 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.”
• Num 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 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 5:15–16He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.
• Job 5:20In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.
• 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!
• Ps 32:3–5When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
• Job 3:20–23Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
• Job 21:2–4“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
• Jonah 4:3And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
• Isa 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.
• Isa 38:15What 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.
• Job 19:4Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
• Job 6:26Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
• Job 6:8–9If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:
• Job 7:16I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
• Job 6:2–4“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
• Job 16:6–16Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
• 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.

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