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 loose His hand and cut me off!
Job 7:15
so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my life.
Jeremiah 20:18
Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?
Light
Job 3:16
or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have been, like infants who did not see light.
Job 33:28
He has redeemed my soul from passing over into the Pit, and my life shall see the light.
The bitter
Job 7:15
so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my life.
1 Samuel 1:10
And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Jehovah, and wept sorely.
2 Kings 4:27
And she came to the man of God to the hill, and she caught him by the feet. And Gehazi came near to push her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone, for her soul is troubled within her. And Jehovah has hidden it from me and has not told me.
Proverbs 31:6
Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to those who are of heavy hearts.
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
And I commended the dead who already have died, more than the living who are living now.