Job 10:1

Job Continues His Response To Bildad

¹ “I am disgusted with my life and loathe it!
I will give free expression to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
²
“I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me [and declare me guilty]!
Show me why You contend and argue and struggle 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 [O Lord].

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself traveled a day’s journey into the wilderness, and he came and sat down under a juniper tree and asked [God] that he might die. He said, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

Numbers 11:15

So if this is the way You are going to deal 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

“[Though] I am blameless,
I do not care about myself;
I despise my life.

Job 3:20-23

“Why is the light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the bitter in soul,

Job 5:15-16

“But God saves [the innocent] from the sword of the mouth of the devious,
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 could actually be weighed
And placed in the balances together with my tragedy [to see if my grief is the grief of a coward]!

Job 6:8-9

“Oh that my request would come to pass,
And that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

Job 6:26

“Do you intend to reprove my words [with a convincing argument],
When the words of one in despair belong to the wind [and go ignored]?

Job 7:16

“I waste away and loathe my life; I will not live forever.
Let me alone, for my days are but a breath [futile and without substance].

Job 10:15-16

‘If I am wicked, woe to me [for judgment comes]!
And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.
For I am sated and filled with disgrace and the sight of my misery.

Job 14:13

“Oh, that You would hide me in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past,
That You would set a definite time and then remember me [and in Your lovingkindness imprint me on your heart]!

Job 16:6-16

“If I speak [to you miserable comforters], my pain is not relieved;
And if I refrain [from speaking], what [pain or anguish] leaves me?

Job 19:4

“And if it were true that I have erred,
My error would remain with me [and I would be conscious of it].

Job 21:2-4

“Listen carefully to my speech,
And let this be the consolation.

Psalm 32:3-5

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

Isaiah 38:15

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

Isaiah 38:17

“Indeed, it was for my own well-being that I had such bitterness;
But You have loved back my life from the pit of nothingness (destruction),
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Jonah 4:3

Therefore now, O Lord, just take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun came up God prepared a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he fainted and he wished to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”