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Job 10:11“I am weary of my life; I will complain freely without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 7:111 Kgs 19:4Num 11:15Job 9:21Jonah 4:8Job 5:15-16Job 5:20Isa 38:15Isa 38:17Job 10:15-16
Job 10:22I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 139:23-24Job 9:29Ps 143:21 Cor 11:31-32Job 34:31-32Job 8:5-6Lam 3:40-42Lam 5:16-17Ps 109:21Ps 25:7
Job 10:33Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 64:8Job 14:15Ps 138:8Jer 12:1-31 Pet 4:19Job 21:16Job 22:18Job 34:18-19Job 34:5-7Job 36:17-18
Job 10:44“Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 16:7Job 9:32Luke 16:15Rev 1:14
Job 10:55Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 3:8Ps 90:2-4Heb 1:12Ps 102:24-27Job 36:26Ps 102:12
Job 10:66that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 14:16Jer 2:34Ps 10:15Ps 44:21Zeph 1:121 Cor 4:5Job 10:14-17John 2:24-25
Job 10:77although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 32:39Dan 3:15Job 42:7John 10:28-30Ps 139:1-21 Thess 2:10Hos 2:10Job 23:10Job 23:13-14Job 31:14
Job 10:88“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 119:73Isa 43:7Job 10:3Jer 18:3-10Gen 6:6-7
Job 10:99Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 2:7Isa 64:8Gen 3:19Eccl 12:7Isa 45:9Jer 18:6Ps 25:6-7Rom 9:21Job 17:14Job 7:7
Job 10:1010Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 139:14-16
Job 10:1111You clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 37:4-8Eph 4:16Job 40:17-182 Cor 5:2-3
Job 10:1212You gave me life and favor, and your intervention watched over my spirit.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 17:28Job 33:4Acts 17:25Gen 19:19Matt 6:25
Job 10:1313“But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 23:13Deut 32:39Eccl 8:6-7Eph 3:11Isa 45:15Isa 45:7Isa 46:9-11Job 23:9Lam 3:37Rom 11:33
Job 10:1414If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 7:21Ps 130:3Exod 34:7Job 13:26-27Job 9:28Num 14:18Ps 139:1Job 14:16
Job 10:1515If I am guilty, woe to me, and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; I am full of shame, and satiated with my affliction.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 3:11Job 9:15Job 9:20-21Job 10:7Isa 6:5Mal 3:18Ps 25:18Exod 3:7Isa 64:5-6Job 21:6
Job 10:1616If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 38:13Lam 3:10Job 5:9Amos 3:8Deut 28:59Hos 13:7-8Num 16:29-30
Job 10:1717You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 16:8Ruth 1:21Jer 48:11Job 16:11-16Job 19:6-11Ps 55:19Zeph 1:12
Job 10:1818“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 20:14-18Jer 15:10Job 11:20Job 14:10Job 3:10-11Matt 26:24
Job 10:1919I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 58:8
Job 10:2020Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone that I may find a little comfort,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 14:1Ps 39:13Job 13:21Job 7:16-21Job 7:6-7Job 8:9Job 9:25-26Ps 103:15-16Ps 39:5
Job 10:2121before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 3:52 Sam 12:23Job 16:22Job 7:8-10Ps 23:42 Sam 14:14Job 14:10-14Job 3:13Ps 88:11-12Isa 38:11
Job 10:2222to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 88:12Jer 13:16Jer 2:6Job 3:5Job 34:22Job 38:17Luke 16:26Ps 23:4Ps 44:19
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