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

The bitterness

Bible References

I will not

To decide words, do ye intend, When, to the wind, are spoken the sayings of one in despair?

My soul doth loathe my life, - I let loose my complaint, I speak, in the bitterness of my soul.

Quietly let me alone, that, I, may speak out, then let come on me, what may.

Though I do speak, unassuaged is my stinging pain, - And, if I forbear, of what am I relieved?

Suffer me, that, I, may speak, and, after I have spoken, thou canst mock!

Hot was my heart within me, While I was musing, there was kindled a fire, I spake with my tongue!

I have told the good-tidings of righteousness in a great convocation, Lo! my lips, do I not restrain, O Yahweh, thou, knowest:

The anguish

And they said each man unto his brother - Verily guilty, we are, respecting our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul when he appealed unto us for favour and we hearkened not, - therefore, hath come in unto us this distress.

But, when she came unto the man of God, on the mount, she caught hold of his feet, - and Gehazi drew near to thrust her away, when the man of God said - Let her alone! for, her life, is embittered to her, howbeit, Yahweh, hath hidden it from me, and hath not told me.

And, taking with him, Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be grieved and to be in great distress.

For, out of much tribulation and anguish of heart, wrote I unto you, through many tears, - not that ye might be grieved, but that, the love, ye might know, which I have very abundantly unto you.

The bitterness

If I have been lawless, alas for me! Or, if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, Surfeited with shame, look thou then on my humiliation.

Whereas, this other man, dieth, in bitterness of soul, and hath never tasted good fortune:

and, she being in bitterness of soul, prayed unto Yahweh, and, wept sore.

What can I say? Since he hath promised for me, Himself, will perform. I will go softly, all my years. Because of the bitterness of my soul,