Job 10:1
Good News Translation
I am tired of living. Listen to my bitter complaint.

New Revised Standard Version
“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Contemporary English Version
I am sick of life! And from my deep despair, I complain to you, my God.

New American Bible
I loathe my life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against 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 them that are in bitterness of soul? . . .

Job 6:8,9 Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look for? . . .

Job 5:15,16,20 But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent. . . .

Job 9:21 Although I should be simple, even this my soul shall be ignorant of, and I shall be weary of my life.

Job 14:13 Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?

Numbers 11:15 But if it seem unto thee otherwise, I beseech thee to kill me, and let me find grace in thy eyes, that I be not afflicted with so great evils.

1 Kings 19:4 And he went forward, one day's journey into the desert. And when he was there, and sat under a juniper tree, he requested for his soul that he might die, and said: It is enough for me, Lord; take away my soul: for I am no better than my fathers.

Jonah 4:3,8 And he prayed to the Lord, and said: I beseech thee, O Lord, is not this what I said, when I was yet in my own country? therefore I went before to flee into Tharsis: for I know that thou art a gracious and merciful God, patient, and of much compassion, and easy to forgive evil. . . .

is weary of my life.

Job 7:11 Wherefore, I will not spare my mouth, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.

Job 19:4 For if I have been ignorant, my ignorance shall be with me.

Job 21:2-4 Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance. . . .

I will speak

Job 10:15,16 And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery. . . .

Job 6:2-4,26 O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance. . . .

Job 7:11 Wherefore, I will not spare my mouth, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.

Job 16:6-16 I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you. . . .

Psalm 32:3-5 Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long. . . .

Isaiah 38:15,17 What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he himself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of my soul. . . .

Context
Job's Plea to God
1My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.2I will say to God: Do not condemn me: tell me why thou judgest me so?…
Cross References
Job 6:9
And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off?

Job 7:11
Wherefore, I will not spare my mouth, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.

Job 7:16
I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.

Isaiah 38:15
What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he himself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 9:35
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