Job 21:4

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As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

"Even I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in my spirit's anguish; I will complain in my inner self's bitterness.

"My inner self loathes my life; {I want to give vent to my complaint}; I want to speak out of [the] bitterness of my inner self.

Do not regard your female servant as {worthless}, but because of the extent of my worries and my provocation I have spoken all of this."

My God, my God why have you forsaken me? [Why are you] far from helping me, [far from] the words of my groaning?

I remember God and I groan loudly; I meditate and my spirit grows faint.

O Yahweh, hear my prayer, and let my cry for help come to you.

Then he said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me."

It happened that the king of Israel [was] crossing over on the wall, and a woman called out to him, saying, "Help, my lord the king!"

Why are you {in despair}, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I shall again praise him, {my salvation} and my God.