Job 10:1

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Summary

Job 10:1

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

My soul

Is weary of my life

Job 7:11

Job 19:4

Job 21:2

I will speak

Bible References

My soul

Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?

O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!

And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy,

Perfect I am! -- I know not my soul, I despise my life.

O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

and if thus Thou art doing to me -- slay me, I pray Thee; slay, if I have found grace in thine eyes, and let me not look on mine affliction.'

and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, 'Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I am not better than my fathers.'

And now, O Jehovah, take, I pray Thee, my soul from me, for better is my death than my life.'

Is weary of my life

Also I -- I withhold not my mouth -- I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.

And also -- truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.

Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation.

I will speak

If I have done wickedly -- woe to me, And righteously -- I lift not up my head, Full of shame -- then see my affliction,

O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!

Also I -- I withhold not my mouth -- I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.

If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me?

When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.

-- What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.