Job 7:11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“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.

Cross References

Genesis 42:21

They said to one another, “Alas, we are paying the penalty for what we did to our brother; we saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this anguish has come upon us.”

Job 10:1

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

Job 10:15

If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.

Job 13:13

“Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.

Job 16:6

“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I refrain, how much of it leaves me?

Job 21:25

Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of good.

Job 23:2

“Today also my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.

Job 36:21

Beware! Do not turn to iniquity; because of that you have been tried by affliction.

Job 6:26

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

Job 9:27

If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint; I will put off my sad countenance and be of good cheer,’

Psalm 39:3

my heart became hot within me. While I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:

Psalm 40:9

I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; see, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O Lord.

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.

Luke 22:44

In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.]]

2 Corinthians 2:4

For I wrote you out of much distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you grief but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

1 Samuel 1:10

She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly.