Job 10:1 Cross References - MLV

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

¹⁵ And if you deal thus with me, I beseech you, kill me out of hand, if I have found favor in your sight and do not let me 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 Jehovah, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

²⁰ Why is light given to him who is in misery and life to the bitter in soul, ²¹ who long for death, but it does not come and dig for it more than for hid treasures, ²² who 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 has hedged in?

¹⁵ But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. ¹⁶ So a poor man has hope and unrighteousness stops her mouth.

²⁰ In famine he will redeem you from death and in war from the power of the sword.

² O that my grief were but weighed and all my calamity laid in the balances! ³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas. Therefore my words have been rash. ⁴ For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison of which my spirit drinks up. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me.

⁸ O 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 you* think to reprove words, seeing that the speeches of a man who 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 everlasting. Let me alone, for my days are vanity.

²¹ Though I were perfect, I do not regard myself. I despise my life.

¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe to me. And if I am righteous, yet I will not lift up my head, being filled with shame and looking upon my affliction.
¹⁶ And if my head exalts itself, you hunt me as a lion. And again you show yourself marvelous upon me.

¹³ O that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath be past, that you would appoint for me a set time and remember me!

⁶ Though I speak, my grief is not kept back and though I forbear, what am I eased? ⁷ But now he has made me weary. You have made desolate all my company. ⁸ And you have laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me. And my leanness rises up against me; it testifies to my face.
⁹ He has torn me in his wrath and persecuted me. He has gnashed upon me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes upon me. ¹⁰ They have opened wide their mouth upon me. They have struck me upon the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me. ¹¹ God delivers me to the perverse and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
¹² I was at ease and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his mark. ¹³ His archers encompass me all around. He splits my reins apart and does not spare. He pours out my gall upon the ground. ¹⁴ He breaks me with breach upon breach. He runs 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 red with weeping and the shadow of death is on my eyelids,

⁴ And be it indeed that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

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

³ Because I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long. ⁴ Because day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah.
⁵ I acknowledged my sin to you and I did not hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Jehovah and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

¹⁵ What shall I say? He has both spoken to me and himself has done it. I will go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁷ Behold, for peace I had great bitterness. But you have by love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption. For you have cast all my sins behind your back.

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

⁸ And it happened, 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.