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
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 7:15
So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.
Jeremiah 20:18
Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Light
Job 3:16
Or as a hidden untimely birth, I had not been; as infants who never saw light.
Job 33:28
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
The bitter
Job 7:15
So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.
1 Samuel 1:10
And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept bitterly.
2 Kings 4:27
And when she came to the man of God at the mountain, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is bitter within her: and the LORD has hid it from me, and has not told me.
Proverbs 31:6
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
Therefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.