Job 10:1 ““I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bi…”

Job 10:1

“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

My soule is cut off though I liue: I wil leaue my complaint vpon my selfe, and wil speake in the bitternesse of my soule.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“My soul”

1 Kings 19:4 Numbers 11:15 Job 9:21 Jonah 4:8 Job 5:20 Job 3:20–23

1 Kings 19:4 · BSB

while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”

Numbers 11:15 · BSB

If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”

Job 9:21 · BSB

Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

Jonah 4:8 · BSB

As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Job 5:20 · BSB

In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

Job 3:20–23 · BSB

Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

“I will leave”

Job 7:11 Job 19:4 Job 21:2–4

Job 7:11 · BSB

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

Job 19:4 · BSB

Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.

Job 21:2–4 · BSB

“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.

“I will speak”

Job 6:2–4 Job 6:26 Job 16:6–16 Psalm 32:3–5 Isaiah 38:15 Isaiah 38:17

Job 6:2–4 · BSB

“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.

Job 6:26 · BSB

Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?

Job 16:6–16 · BSB

Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

Psalm 32:3–5 · BSB

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

Isaiah 38:15 · BSB

What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

Isaiah 38:17 · BSB

Surely for my own welfare I had such great anguish; but Your love has delivered me from the pit of oblivion, for You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Also

Job 7:16

Job 7:16 · BSB

I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.

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