Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Wherefore
The bitter
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Bible References
Wherefore
Job 6:9
And God will, and he will crush me; will he let his hand remain, and will he cut me off?
Job 7:15
And my soul will choose strangling; death rather than my bones.
Jeremiah 20:18
Wherefore this came I forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, and my days shall be finished with shame?
Light
Job 3:16
Or as a hidden abortion I shall not be; as children they saw not light.
Job 33:28
Redeem my soul from passing into the pit, and my life shall look upon light
The bitter
Job 7:15
And my soul will choose strangling; death rather than my bones.
1 Samuel 1:10
And she bitter of soul, and she will pray to Jehovah, and weeping, she will weep.
2 Kings 4:27
And she will come to the man of God to the mountain, and she will lay hold upon his feet; and Gehazi will come near to push her away; and the man of God will say, Let go to her, for her soul is bitter to her: and Jehovah hid from me and announced not to me.
Proverbs 31:6
Ye shall give strong drink to him perishing, and wine to the bitter of soul
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
And I praise the dead already dead more than the living they yet living.