My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
My soul
Job 3:20-23 Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul…
Job 6:8,9 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the …
Job 5:15,16,20 But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from …
Job 9:21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Job 14:13 O that you would hide me in the grave, that you would keep me secret, …
Numbers 11:15 And if you deal thus with me, kill me, I pray you, out of hand, if …
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 …
is weary of my life. or, cut off while I live. I will leave
Job 7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish …
Job 19:4 And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
Job 21:2-4 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations…
I will speak
Job 10:15,16 If I be wicked, woe to me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not …
Job 6:2-4,26 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in …
Job 7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish …
Job 16:6-16 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what …
Psalm 32:3-5 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long…
Isaiah 38:15,17 What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done …
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
Do not
Psalm 6:1-4 O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, neither chasten me in your hot …
Psalm 25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according …
Psalm 38:1-8 O lord, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither chasten me in your hot …
Psalm 109:21 But do you for me, O GOD the Lord, for your name's sake: because …
Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight …
Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ …
shew me
Job 8:5,6 If you would seek to God betimes, and make your supplication to the Almighty…
Job 34:31,32 Surely it is meet to be said to God, I have borne chastisement, I …
Psalm 139:23,24 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts…
Lamentations 3:40-42 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD…
Lamentations 5:16,17 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!…
1 Corinthians 11:31,32 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged…
Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Is it good
Job 34:5-7,18,19 For Job has said, I am righteous: and God has taken away my judgment…
Job 36:7-9,17,18 He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are …
Job 40:2,8 Shall he that contends with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproves …
Lamentations 3:2-18 He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light…
despise
Psalm 69:33 For the LORD hears the poor, and despises not his prisoners.
the work. Heb. the labour
Job 14:15 You shall call, and I will answer you: you will have a desire to …
Job 34:19 How much less to him that accepts not the persons of princes, nor …
Psalm 138:8 The LORD will perfect that which concerns me: your mercy, O LORD, …
Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our …
1 Peter 4:19 Why let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the …
shine upon
Job 8:20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help …
Jeremiah 12:1-3 Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk …
Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
Thou knowest. Heb. It is upon thy knowledge
Job 23:10 But he knows the way that I take: when he has tried me, I shall come …
Job 31:6,14,35 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know my integrity…
Job 42:7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, …
Psalm 1:6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly …
Psalm 7:3,8,9 O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands…
Psalm 17:3 You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have …
Psalm 26:1-5 Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted …
Psalm 139:1,2,21-24 O lord, you have searched me, and known me…
John 21:17 He said to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, love you me? …
2 Corinthians 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that …
1 Thessalonians 2:10 You are witnesses, and God also, how piously and justly and blamelessly …
and there
Job 23:13,14 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, …
Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, …
Psalm 50:22 Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, …
Daniel 3:15 Now if you be ready that at what time you hear the sound of the cornet, …
Hosea 2:10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, …
John 10:28-30 And I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither …
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Remember
Job 7:7 O remember that my life is wind: my eye shall no more see good.
Psalm 25:6,7,18 Remember, O LORD, your tender mercies and your loving kindnesses; …
Psalm 89:47 Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?
Psalm 106:4 Remember me, O LORD, with the favor that you bore to your people: …
thou hast
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed …
Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return to …
Isaiah 45:9 Woe to him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with …
Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our …
Jeremiah 18:6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? said the …
into dust again
Job 17:14 I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are …
Psalm 22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue sticks to …
Psalm 90:3 You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit …
Romans 9:21 Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make …
Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.
And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
hid
Job 23:9 On the left hand, where he does work, but I cannot behold him: he …
Ecclesiastes 8:6,7 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the …
Isaiah 45:15 Truly you are a God that hide yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior.
Romans 11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! …
I know
Job 23:13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, …
Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, …
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: …
Isaiah 46:9-11 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none …
Lamentations 3:37 Who is he that said, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?
Ephesians 3:11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
then
Job 13:26,27 For you write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the …
Job 14:16 For now you number my steps: do you not watch over my sin?
Psalm 130:3 If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Psalm 139:1 O lord, you have searched me, and known me.
thou wilt
Job 7:21 And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? …
Exodus 34:7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression …
Numbers 14:18 The LORD is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity …
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
If I be wicked
Job 10:7 You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver …
Job 9:29 If I be wicked, why then labor I in vain?
Job 27:7 Let my enemy be as the wicked, and he that rises up against me as …
Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his …
Isaiah 6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean …
Malachi 3:18 Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the …
Romans 2:8,9 But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but …
righteous
Job 9:12,15,20,21 Behold, he takes away, who can hinder him? who will say to him, What do you…
Isaiah 64:5,6 You meet him that rejoices and works righteousness, those that remember …
Luke 17:10 So likewise you, when you shall have done all those things which …
I am full
Job 21:6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.
Job 23:15 Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.
see
Exodus 3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people …
Psalm 25:18 Look on my affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.
Psalm 119:153 Consider my affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget your law.
Lamentations 1:20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; my …
Lamentations 5:1 Remember, O LORD, what is come on us: consider, and behold our reproach.
For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Thou huntest
Isaiah 38:13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my …
Lamentations 3:10 He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
Hosea 13:7,8 Therefore I will be to them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will …
Amos 3:8 The lion has roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD has spoken, …
marvellous
Numbers 16:29,30 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited …
Deuteronomy 28:59 Then the LORD will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of …
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
witnesses. that is, plagues
Job 16:8 And you have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against …
Ruth 1:21 I went out full and the LORD has brought me home again empty: why …
changes (I am as if attacked by successive troops; if one company be wearied, another succeeds to the attack.)
Psalm 55:19 God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that stays of old. Selah. …
Jeremiah 48:11 Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, …
Zephaniah 1:12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem …
war
Job 16:11-16 God has delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the …
Job 19:6-11 Know now that God has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net…
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
my days few
Job 7:6,7,16 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope…
Job 8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days …
Job 9:25,26 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good…
Job 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
Psalm 39:5 Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and my age is as …
Psalm 103:15,16 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes…
cease
Job 7:17-21 What is man, that you should magnify him? and that you should set …
Job 13:21 Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not your dread make me afraid.
Psalm 39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.
Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
I go whence
Job 7:8-10 The eye of him that has seen me shall see me no more: your eyes are …
Job 14:10-14 But man dies, and wastes away: yes, man gives up the ghost, and where is he…
2 Samuel 12:23 But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? …
2 Samuel 14:14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which …
Isaiah 38:11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living…
the land
Job 3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell …
Psalm 88:6,11,12 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps…
the shadow. See on
Job 3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell …
Psalm 23:4 Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will …
Jeremiah 2:6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the …
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
the shadow of death (Where death projects his shadow, intercepting the light of life: without any order, having no arrangement, no distinction of inhabitants; the poor and the rich are there, the king and the beggar, their bodies in equal corruption and disgrace: where the light is as darkness, a palpable obscure, space and place, with only such a light or capability of distinction, as renders 'darkness visible.')
