Job 10:1

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“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 broom tree; and he asked that he might die, saying, “It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am no better than my fathers.”

Job 14:13

Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest conceal me until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Job 19:4

And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

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, when the speech of a despairing man is 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 for ever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath.

Job 9:21

I am blameless; I regard not 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

Lo, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but thou hast held back my life from the pit of destruction, for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Jonah 4:3

Therefore now, O Lord, take my life from me, I beseech thee, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Jonah 4:8

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

Numbers 11:15

If thou wilt deal thus with me, kill me at once, if I find favor in thy sight, that I may not see my wretchedness.”