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I loathe my very life. I will therefore give free rein to my complaint and speak out in my bitterness.
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If only you would hide me in the grave (Sheol) and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set a time for me and then remember me!
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Oh, that I might have my request and that God would grant what I long for. Oh that God would be willing to crush me, to let loose his hand and cut me off! Then I would still have this consolation, my joy in unrelenting pain, that I had not denied the words of the Holy One. read more.
What strength do I have, that I should wait and hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?
What strength do I have, that I should wait and hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?
Is this not the struggle of all humanity? A person's life is long and hard like that of a hired hand. It is like a worker who longs for the day to end, like a servant waiting to be paid. I am allotted months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.
I would rather die of strangulation than go on and on like this. I hate my life. I do not want to go on living. Oh, leave me alone for these few remaining days.
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I loathe my very life. I will therefore give free rein to my complaint and speak out in my bitterness.
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When the sun rose God prepared a sultry (burning hot) east wind. So the sun beat upon the head of Jonah and he grew faint. He requested for himself that he might die. He said: It is better for me to die than to live!
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My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle flying back and forth. They end without hope.
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Rebekah said to Isaac: I cannot stand Hittite women! I would rather die than see Jacob marry one of them.
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Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in heart?
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What strength do I have, that I should wait and hope? What prospects, that I should be patient?
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I hated life. Everything under the sun was evil to me. All is vanity and grasping for the wind.
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I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed for they had no one to comfort them. The oppressors had power but they had no one to comfort them. I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.