Job 10:1

In 11 translations

BSB

“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

KJV

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.weary…: or, cut off while I live

WEB

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

ASV

My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

LSV

“My soul has been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

YLT

My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

DBY

My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

DRC

My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

GNV

My soule is cut off though I liue: I wil leaue my complaint vpon my selfe, and wil speake in the bitternesse of my soule.

JPS

My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

LXXE

Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.

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Original-language editions

WLC

נָֽקְטָ֥ה נַפְשִׁ֗י בְּחַ֫יָּ֥י אֶֽעֶזְבָ֣ה עָלַ֣י שִׂיחִ֑י אֲ֝דַבְּרָה֗ בְּמַ֣ר נַפְשִֽׁי׃

LXX-Br

Καμνὼν τῇ ψυχῇ μου, στένων ἐπαφήσω ἐπʼ αὐτὸν τὰ ῥήματα μου· λαλήσω πικρίᾳ ψυχῆς μου συνεχόμενος,

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 7:11Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
• 1 Kings 19:4while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
• Numbers 11:15If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
• Jonah 4:8As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
• Job 9:21Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
• Job 5:15–16He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful. So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
• Job 5:20In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.
• Job 6:26Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
• Isaiah 38:15What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
• Job 19:4Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
• Job 6:2–4“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales. For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas— no wonder my words have been rash. For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my…
• Job 21:2–4“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me. Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking. Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
• Job 3:20–23Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul, who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure, who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave? Why is…
• Job 14:13If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!
• Job 7:16I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
• Jonah 4:3And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

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