Job 3:20

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

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.”

Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh.

We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for lack of the fruits of the field.

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”

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

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

His bones are full of his youth, but youth will lie down with him in the dust.

wine that makes the heart of man glad, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

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

Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?

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.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

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

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

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

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul.

If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

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.

because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

saying, “No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:” ’

But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against Yahweh.

He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.

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

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him, and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

He sent the following to his father: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.

In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, “At evening, you shall know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt.

But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed Yahweh’s people!”

Why have you brought Yahweh’s assembly into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

Joshua said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!

Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart; for Yahweh is with you.”

Was this thing done by my lord the king, and you haven’t shown to your servants who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?”

But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,

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.”

One of his servants said, “No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”

Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar: and so many of the Ethiopians fell that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh and before his army; and they carried away very much booty.

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

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

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

He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

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

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

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

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

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

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.

For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of youth, when she is cast off,” says your God.

But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.

Don’t weep for the dead. Don’t bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he will return no more, and not see his native country.

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”

You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.