Job 10:1 Cross References - ERV

¹ My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁵ And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

⁴ But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

²⁰ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; ²¹ Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; ²² Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? ²³ [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

¹⁵ But he saveth from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. ¹⁶ So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

²⁰ In famine he shall redeem thee from death; and in war from the power of the sword.

² Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! ³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: therefore have my words been rash. ⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

⁸ Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for. ⁹ Even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

²⁶ Do ye imagine to reprove words? seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind.

¹¹ Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁶ I loathe [my life]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

²¹ I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.

¹⁵ If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; being filled with ignominy and looking upon mine affliction. ¹⁶ And if [my head] exalt itself, thou huntest me as a lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvelous upon me.

¹³ Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

⁶ Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? ⁷ But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. ⁸ And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness riseth up against me, it testifieth to my face. ⁹ He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; he hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me. ¹⁰ They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: they gather themselves together against me. ¹¹ God delivereth me to the ungodly, and casteth me into the hands of the wicked. ¹² I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: he hath also set me up for his mark. ¹³ His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. ¹⁴ He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a giant. ¹⁵ I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust. ¹⁶ My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

⁴ And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

² Hear diligently my speech; and let this be your consolations. ³ Suffer me, and I also will speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. ⁴ As for me, is my complaint to man? and why should I not be impatient?

³ When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. ⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. Selah ⁵ I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah

¹⁵ What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁷ Behold, [it was] for [my] peace [that] I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

³ Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

⁸ And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.