Job 21:4

In 11 translations

BSB

Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?

KJV

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?troubled: Heb. shortened?

WEB

As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?

ASV

As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

LSV

[Is] my complaint [against] man? And if [so], why may my temper not become short?

YLT

I — to man [is] my complaint? and if [so], wherefore May not my temper become short?

DBY

As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?

DRC

Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?

GNV

Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?

JPS

As for me, is my complaint to man? Or why should I not be impatient?

LXXE

What! is my reproof of man? and why should I not be angry?

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Original-language editions

WLC

הֶ֭אָנֹכִי לְאָדָ֣ם שִׂיחִ֑י וְאִם־מַ֝דּ֗וּעַ לֹא־תִקְצַ֥ר רוּחִֽי׃

LXX-Br

Τί γάρ; μὴ ἀνθρώπου μου ἡ ἔλεγξις; ἢ διὰ τί οὐ θυμωθήσομαι;

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 42:11Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
• Psalms 102:1Hear my prayer, O LORD; let my cry for help come before You.
• Psalms 142:2–3I pour out my complaint before Him; I reveal my trouble to Him. Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.
• Psalms 77:3–9I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak. I considered the days of old, the years long in the past. At night I…
• 2 Kings 6:26–27As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!” He answered, “If the LORD does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or the…
• Matthew 26:38Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.”
• Job 10:1–2“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul. I will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
• Job 7:11–21Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard? When I think…
• Psalms 22:1–3My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning? I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest. Yet You are holy,…
• 1 Samuel 1:16Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”
• Exodus 6:9Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.
• Job 6:11What strength do I have, that I should still hope? What is my future, that I should be patient?

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