But Job answered and said,
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
the arrows.
Job 16:12-14 I was at ease, but he has broken me asunder: he has also taken me …
Deuteronomy 32:23,42 I will heap mischiefs on them; I will spend my arrows on them…
Psalm 7:13 He has also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordains …
Psalm 18:14 Yes, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out …
Psalm 21:12 Therefore shall you make them turn their back, when you shall make …
Psalm 38:2 For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me sore.
Psalm 45:5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby …
Lamentations 3:12,13 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow…
drinketh up.
Deuteronomy 32:24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, …
Psalm 143:7 Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from …
Proverbs 18:14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit …
Mark 14:33,34 And he takes with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore …
Mark 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, …
the terrors.
Job 9:17 For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
Job 30:15 Terrors are turned on me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my …
Job 31:23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his …
Psalm 88:15,16 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer …
2 Corinthians 5:11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we …
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
as my sorrowful meat.
1 Kings 17:12 And she said, As the LORD your God lives, I have not a cake, but …
1 Kings 22:27 And say, Thus said the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed …
Psalm 102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
Ezekiel 4:14,16 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul has not been polluted…
Ezekiel 12:18,19 Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with …
Daniel 10:3 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, …
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
that it would.
Job 3:20-22 Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul…
Job 7:15,16 So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life…
Job 14:13 O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would keep me secret, …
Numbers 11:14,15 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me…
1 Kings 19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came …
Jonah 4:3,8 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech you, my life from me; for …
Revelation 9:6 And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and …
that he would.
Job 19:21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends; for the hand …
Psalm 32:4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me: my moisture is turned …
Isaiah 48:10-13 Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you …
Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
Then.
Job 3:22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Job 21:33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him, and every man shall …
I would.
Job 9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself …
let him not.
Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his …
Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, …
2 Peter 2:4,5 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down …
have not concealed.
Job 23:12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have …
Psalm 37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of judgment.
Psalm 40:9,10 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: see, I have …
Psalm 71:17,18 O God, you have taught me from my youth: and till now have I declared …
Psalm 119:13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of your mouth.
Acts 20:20,27 And how I kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but have …
the Holy One.
Leviticus 19:2 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say …
1 Samuel 2:2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside you: neither …
Isaiah 30:11,12 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy …
Isaiah 57:15 For thus said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose …
Hosea 11:9 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger, I will not return …
Habakkuk 1:12 Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall …
Habakkuk 3:3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His …
Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things …
Revelation 4:8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they …
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
To him.
Job 4:3,4 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands…
Job 16:5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips …
Job 19:21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O you my friends; for the hand …
Proverbs 17:17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
1 Corinthians 12:26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or …
2 Corinthians 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
Galatians 6:2 Bear you one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Hebrews 13:3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which …
is afflicted. Heb. melteth. he forsaketh.
Genesis 20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not …
Psalm 36:1-3 The transgression of the wicked said within my heart, that there …
Luke 23:40 But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Do not you fear God, …
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;
My brethren.
Job 19:19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Psalm 38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen …
Psalm 41:9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of …
Psalm 55:12-14 For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it…
Psalm 88:18 Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.
Jeremiah 9:4,5 Take you heed every one of his neighbor, and trust you not in any …
Jeremiah 30:14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not; for I have …
Micah 7:5,6 Trust you not in a friend, put you not confidence in a guide: keep …
John 13:18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture …
John 16:32 Behold, the hour comes, yes, is now come, that you shall be scattered, …
as the stream.
Jeremiah 15:18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to …
Jude 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, …
Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
Tema.
Genesis 25:15 Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:
Isaiah 21:14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was …
Jeremiah 25:23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
Sheba.
Genesis 10:7 And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, …
Genesis 25:3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, …
1 Kings 10:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning …
Psalm 72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents: the …
Ezekiel 27:22,23 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were your merchants: they …
They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.
ye are nothing. or, ye are like to them. Heb. to it.
Job 6:15 My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream …
Job 13:4 But you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value.
Psalm 62:9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a …
Isaiah 2:22 Cease you from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein …
Jeremiah 17:5,6 Thus said the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes …
nothing. Heb. not. ye see.
Job 2:11-13 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come …
Psalm 38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen …
Proverbs 19:7 All the brothers of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends …
Jeremiah 51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, …
Matthew 26:31,56 Then said Jesus to them, All you shall be offended because of me …
2 Timothy 4:16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: …
Revelation 18:9,10,17,18 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived …
Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?
Or, Deliver me from the enemy's hand? or, Redeem me from the hand of the mighty?
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Teach me.
Job 5:27 See this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know you it for your good.
Job 32:11,15,16 Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst …
Job 33:1,31-33 Why, Job, I pray you, hear my speeches, and listen to all my words…
Job 34:32 That which I see not teach you me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
Psalm 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: …
Proverbs 9:9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a …
Proverbs 25:12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise …
James 1:19 Why, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to …
I will.
Psalm 39:1,2 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: …
James 3:2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, …
cause me.
Job 10:2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why you contend with me.
Psalm 19:12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse you me from secret faults.
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
reprove.
Job 2:10 But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. …
Job 3:3-26 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it …
Job 4:3,4 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands…
Job 34:3-9 For the ear tries words, as the mouth tastes meat…
Job 38:2 Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 40:5,8 Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yes, twice; but I will …
Job 42:3,7 Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge? therefore have I …
Matthew 12:37 For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall …
one that.
Job 6:4,9 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof …
Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on myself; …
as wind.
Job 8:2 How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words …
Hosea 12:1 Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind: he daily …
Ephesians 4:14 That we from now on be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried …
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
overwhelm. Heb. cause to fall upon. the fatherless.
Job 22:9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have …
Job 24:3,9 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, they take the widow's …
Job 29:12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and …
Job 31:17,21 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not …
Exodus 22:22-24 You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child…
Psalm 82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Proverbs 23:10,11 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless…
Ezekiel 22:7 In you have they set light by father and mother: in the middle of …
Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness …
James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To …
ye dig.
Psalm 7:15 He made a pit, and dig it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
Psalm 57:6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they …
Jeremiah 18:20,22 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dig a pit for my …
Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
