Job 21:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

As for me, is my complaint addressed to mortals? Why should I not be impatient?

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Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise him, my help and my God.

Then he said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and stay awake with me.”

Hear my prayer, O Lord; let my cry come to you.

What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient?

Do not regard your servant as a worthless woman, for I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation all this time.”

Moses told this to the Israelites, but they would not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and their cruel slavery.

that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,