Job 10:1

Job Continues His Response To Bildad

¹ “I loathe my own life;
I will give full vent to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
² “I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
Let me know why You contend with me.

Bitterness of My Soul

Put Forth

Job

Job 7:11

“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.

1 Kings 19:4

But 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 my life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

Numbers 11:15

So if You are going to deal thus with me, please kill me at once, if I have found favor in Your sight, and do not let me see my wretchedness.”

Job 9:21

“I am guiltless;
I do not take notice of myself;
I despise my life.

Job 3:20-23

“Why is light given to him who suffers,
And life to the bitter of soul,

Job 5:15-16

“But He saves from the sword of their mouth,
And the poor from the hand of the mighty.

Job 5:20

“In famine He will redeem you from death,
And in war from the power of the sword.

Job 6:2-4

“Oh that my grief were actually weighed
And laid in the balances together with my calamity!

Job 6:8-9

“Oh that my request might come to pass,
And that God would grant my longing!

Job 6:26

“Do you intend to reprove my words,
When the words of one in despair belong to the wind?

Job 7:16

“I waste away; I will not live forever.
Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Job 10:15-16

‘If I am wicked, woe to me!
And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.
I am sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery.

Job 14:13

“Oh that You would hide me in Sheol,
That You would conceal me until Your wrath returns to You,
That You would set a limit for me and remember me!

Job 16:6-16

“If I speak, my pain is not lessened,
And if I hold back, what has left me?

Job 19:4

“Even if I have truly erred,
My error lodges with me.

Job 21:2-4

“Listen carefully to my speech,
And let this be your way of consolation.

Psalm 32:3-5

When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away
Through my groaning all day long.

Isaiah 38:15

“What shall I say?
For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it;
I will wander about all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

Isaiah 38:17

“Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness;
It is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness,
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Jonah 4:3

Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for death is better to me than life.”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life.”