Job 10:1

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

““I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.”

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BSBPD

““I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 10:1 — 23 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 11:15If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
  2. 1 Kings 19:4while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
  3. Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
  4. Job 5:15He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.
  5. Job 5:20In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.
  6. Job 6:2“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
  7. Job 6:8If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:
  8. Job 6:9that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
  9. Job 6:26Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
  10. Job 7:11Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
  11. Job 7:16I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
  12. Job 9:21Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
  13. Job 10:15If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
  14. Job 14:13If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!
  15. Job 16:6Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
  16. Job 19:4Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
  17. Job 21:2“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
  18. Job 21:4Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
  19. Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
  20. Isaiah 38:15What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
  21. Isaiah 38:17Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
  22. Jonah 4:3And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
  23. Jonah 4:8As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

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