Job 10:1 Cross References - BBE

¹ My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.

¹⁵ If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.

⁴ While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

²⁰ Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul; ²¹ To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth; ²² Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place; ²³ To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

¹⁵ But he keeps safe from their sword those who have no father, and the poor from the power of the strong. ¹⁶ So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.

²⁰ When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

² If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble! ³ For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled. ⁴ For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.

⁸ If only I might have an answer to my prayer, and God would give me my desire! ⁹ If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

²⁶ My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.

¹¹ So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

¹⁶ I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.

²¹ I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.

¹⁵ That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble. ¹⁶ And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:

¹³ If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

⁶ If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me? ⁷ But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble. ⁸ It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face. ⁹ I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes; ¹⁰ Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me. ¹¹ God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers. ¹² I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows. ¹³ His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth. ¹⁴ I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war. ¹⁵ I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust. ¹⁶ My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

⁴ And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.

² Give attention with care to my words; and let this be your comfort. ³ Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me. ⁴ As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?

³ When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day. ⁴ For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. Selah. ⁵ I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. Selah.

¹⁵ What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

¹⁷ See, in place of peace my soul had bitter sorrow. but you have kept back my soul from the underworld; for you have put all my sins out of your memory.

³ So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.

⁸ Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.