Job 10:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

1 Kings 19:4

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.”

Job 14:13

O that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!

Job 19:4

And even if it is true that I have erred, my error remains with me.

Job 5:20

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

Job 6:26

Do you think that you can reprove words, as if the speech of the desperate were wind?

Job 7:11

“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 7:16

I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath.

Job 9:21

I am blameless; I do not know myself; I loathe my life.

Isaiah 38:15

But what can I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. All my sleep has fled because of the bitterness of my soul.

Isaiah 38:17

Surely it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness, but you have held back my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Jonah 4:3

And now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:8

When the sun rose, God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint and asked that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Numbers 11:15

If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once—if I have found favor in your sight—and do not let me see my misery.”