Thematic Bible
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Afflictions » Moments of Discouragement » Job
I will give free expression to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
For my life is spent with sorrow
And my years with sighing;
My strength has failed because of my iniquity,
And even my body has wasted away.
Complaints » Complaints of men to God
I will give free expression to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
“Even today my complaint is contentious;
His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
Listen to me and answer me;
I am restless and distraught in my complaint and distracted
I remember God; then I am disquieted and I groan;
I sigh [in prayer], and my spirit grows faint. Selah.
I pour out my complaint before Him;
I declare my trouble before Him.
death » Desired » Job
I will give free expression to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
“Oh, that You would hide me in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
That You would conceal me until Your wrath is past,
That You would set a definite time and then remember me [and in Your lovingkindness imprint me on your heart]!
Oh, that I might have my request, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! I even wish that it would please God to crush me, that He would let loose His hand and cut me off! Then would I still have consolation -- "yes, I would leap [for joy] amid unsparing pain [though I shrink from it] -- "that I have not concealed or denied the words of the Holy One! read more.
What strength have I left, that I should wait and hope? And what is ahead of me, that I should be patient?
What strength have I left, that I should wait and hope? And what is ahead of me, that I should be patient?
Is there not an [appointed] warfare and hard labor to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling? As a servant earnestly longs for the shade and the evening shadows, and as a hireling who looks for the reward of his work, So am I allotted months of futile [suffering], and [long] nights of misery are appointed to me.
So that I would choose strangling and death rather than these my bones. I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath (futility).
Despondency » Job
I will give free expression to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
For my life is spent with sorrow
And my years with sighing;
My strength has failed because of my iniquity,
And even my body has wasted away.
Life » Of the spirit » Weariness of
I will give free expression to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
When the sun came up God prepared a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he fainted and he wished to die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
Verse Concepts
“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And are spent without hope.
Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of living because of the daughters of Heth [these insolent wives of Esau]. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”
“Why is the light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the bitter in soul,
“What strength do I have left, that I should wait [and hope]?
And what is ahead of me, that I should be patient and endure?
So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun caused me only great sorrow; because all is futility and chasing after the wind.
Verse Concepts
Then I returned and considered all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun: And I beheld the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they [too] had no comforter. So I praised and thought more fortunate those who have been long dead than the living, who are still alive.