Job 10:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

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

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

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.

Job 14:13

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!

Job 19:4

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

Job 5:20

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

Job 6:26

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

Job 7:11

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.

Job 7:16

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

Job 9:21

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

Isaiah 38:15

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.

Isaiah 38:17

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.

Jonah 4:3

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

Jonah 4:8

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.

Numbers 11:15

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.