Job 7:11

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Summary

Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

I will not

Psalm 40:9

The anguish

2 Corinthians 2:4

The bitterness

Bible References

I will not

“Do you intend to reprove my words,
When the words of one in despair belong to the wind?

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I loathe my own life;

I will give full vent to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

“Be silent before me so that I may speak;
Then let come on me what may.

“If I speak, my pain is not lessened,
And if I hold back, what has left me?

“Bear with me that I may speak;
Then after I have spoken, you may mock.

My heart was hot within me,
While I was musing the fire burned;
Then I spoke with my tongue:

I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great congregation;
Behold, I will not restrain my lips,
O Lord, You know.

The anguish

Then they said to one another, “Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us.”

When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And Gehazi came near to push her away; but the man of God said, “Let her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and the Lord has hidden it from me and has not told me.”

And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and distressed.

And being in agony He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.

The bitterness

‘If I am wicked, woe to me!
And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.
I am sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery.

While another dies with a bitter soul,
Never even tasting anything good.

She, greatly distressed, prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly.

“What shall I say?

For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it;

I will wander about all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.