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 7:11“Therefore I will not keep silent. 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. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”
• Num 11:15If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”
• Job 9:21I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
• Jonah 4:8When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
• Job 5:15–16But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
• Job 5:20In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.
• Job 14:13“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
• Ps 32:3–5When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
• Job 3:20–23“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
• Job 21:2–4“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
• Jonah 4:3Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”
• Isa 38:17Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
• Isa 38:15What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
• Job 19:4If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
• Job 6:26Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?
• Job 6:8–9“Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,
• Job 7:16I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
• Job 6:2–4“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
• Job 16:6–16“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
• Job 10:15–16If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

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