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
That he would begin and smite me: that he would let his hand go, and hew me down.
Job 7:15
that my soul wisheth rather to be strangled, and my bones to be dead.
Jeremiah 20:18
Wherefore came I forth of my mother's womb? To have experience of labour and sorrow? And to lead my life with shame?
Light
Job 3:16
O that I utterly had no being, or were as a thing born out of time that is put aside, either as young children, which never saw the light.
Job 33:28
Yea, he hath delivered my soul from destruction, and my life, that it seeth the light.'
The bitter
Job 7:15
that my soul wisheth rather to be strangled, and my bones to be dead.
1 Samuel 1:10
And she was troubled in her spirits, and prayed unto the LORD and wept sore,
2 Kings 4:27
Then she went to the man of God up to the hill and caught him by the feet. And Gehazi went to her, to thrust her away. But the man of God said, "Let her alone, for her soul is vexed, and the LORD hath hid it from me and hath not told it me."
Proverbs 31:6
Give strong drink unto such as are condemned to death, and wine unto those that mourn:
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Ecclesiastes 4:2
Wherefore I judged those that are dead, to be more happy than such as be alive.