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 refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
• 1 Kgs 19:4But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
• Num 11:15And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
• Job 9:21Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
• Jonah 4:8And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
• Job 5:15–16But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
• Job 5:20In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
• Job 14:13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
• Ps 32:3–5When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
• Job 3:20–23Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
• Job 21:2–4Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
• Jonah 4:3Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
• Isa 38:17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
• Isa 38:15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
• Job 19:4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
• Job 6:26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
• Job 6:8–9Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
• Job 7:16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
• Job 6:2–4Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
• Job 16:6–16Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
• Job 10:15–16If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

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