Job 7:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Are ye not thinking up words of reproof and throw to the wind words that are lost?

My soul is cut off in my life; therefore, I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Listen to me, and I will speak, and afterward let come on me what will.

Though if I speak, my pain does not cease; and if I forbear to speak, it does not depart from me.

Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.

My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue,

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; behold, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

The anguish

And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

And when she came to the man of God in the mountain, she caught him by the feet. And Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but 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 revealed it to me.

And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and very heavy.

And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know how much more charity I have towards you.

The bitterness

If I am wicked, woe unto me; and if I am righteous, I will not lift up my head, being full of dishonour and of seeing my affliction.

And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, never having eaten with pleasure.

And she was in bitterness of soul and prayed unto the LORD and wept sore;

What shall I say? He has both spoken unto me, and he himself has done it; I shall walk softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.