Job 9:18

Job's Third Speech: A Response To Bildad

¹⁷ “For He bruises me with a tempest
And multiplies my wounds without cause.
¹⁸ “He will not allow me to get my breath,
But saturates me with bitterness.
¹⁹ “If it is a matter of power, behold, He is the strong one!
And if it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

Job

Job 7:19

“Will You never turn Your gaze away from me,
Nor let me alone until I swallow my spittle?

Job 3:20

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

Job 27:2

“As God lives, who has taken away my right,
And the Almighty, who has embittered my soul,

Psalm 39:13

“Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may smile again
Before I depart and am no more.”

Psalm 88:7

Your wrath has rested upon me,
And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.

Psalm 88:15-18

I was afflicted and about to die from my youth on;
I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.

Lamentations 3:3

Surely against me He has turned His hand
Repeatedly all the day.

Lamentations 3:15

He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drunk with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:18-19

So I say, “My strength has perished,
And so has my hope from the Lord.”

Hebrews 12:11

All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.