Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Is weary of my life

Bible References

My soul

Job 3:20

“Why is the light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the bitter in soul,
Job 6:8

“Oh that my request would come to pass,
And that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Job 5:15

“But God saves [the innocent] from the sword of the mouth of the devious,
And the poor from the hand of the mighty.
Job 9:21

“[Though] I am blameless,
I do not care about myself;
I despise my life.
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]!
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.”
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.”
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O Lord, just take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Is weary of my life

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].
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

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

I will speak

Job 10:15

‘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 6:2

“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 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].
Job 16:6

“If I speak [to you miserable comforters], my pain is not relieved;
And if I refrain [from speaking], what [pain or anguish] leaves me?
Psalm 32:3

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.