Job 10:1

“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.

He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.

I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail looking for my God.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child. Why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned pale?

She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.

Zion spreads out her hands. There is no one to comfort her. Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one’s birth.

The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

We have heard its report. Our hands become feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, and pains as of a woman in labor.

They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about four hundred men.

whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,

When he saw that, he arose, and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

Then Ezra rose up from before God’s house, and went into the room of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib. When he came there, he ate no bread, nor drank water; for he mourned because of their trespass of the captivity.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint;’

I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

Look away from him, that he may rest, until he accomplishes, as a hireling, his day.

“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away and exist no more.”

Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.

The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

What will you say, when he sets over you as head those whom you have yourself taught to be friends to you? Won’t sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail?

Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God’s Spirit.

For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”

because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!

But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.

If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.

Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”

Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”