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Job 10

Job 10:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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My soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
is βweary
naqat (Hebrew #5354)
to loathe
KJV usage: weary.
Pronounce: naw-kat'
Origin: a primitive root
of my life
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
; I will leave
`azab (Hebrew #5800)
to loosen, i.e. relinquish, permit, etc.
KJV usage: commit self, fail, forsake, fortify, help, leave (destitute, off), refuse, X surely.
Pronounce: aw-zab'
Origin: a primitive root
my complaint
siyach (Hebrew #7879)
a contemplation; by implication, an utterance
KJV usage: babbling, communication, complaint, meditation, prayer, talk.
Pronounce: see'-akh
Origin: from 7878
upon myself; I will speak
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
in the bitterness
mar (Hebrew #4751)
from 4843; bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly
KJV usage: + angry, bitter(-ly, -ness), chafed, discontented, X great, heavy.
Pronounce: mar
Origin: or (feminine) marah {maw-raw'}
of my soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
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or, cut off while I live.

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Life,
Soul; Spirit

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-17:  Job, taking liberty of complaint, expostulates with God about his afflictions.
18-22:  He complains of life, and craves a little ease before death.
My soul.
Job 3:20‑23• 20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
 21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
 22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
 23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? (Job 3:20‑23)
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Job 6:8‑9• 8Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
 9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! (Job 6:8‑9)
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Job 5:15‑16,20• 15But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
 16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
 20In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. (Job 5:15‑16,20)
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Job 9:21• 21Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life. (Job 9:21)
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Job 14:13• 13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! (Job 14:13)
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Num. 11:15• 15And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness. (Num. 11:15)
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1 Kings 19:4• 4But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. (1 Kings 19:4)
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Jonah 4:3,8• 3Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
 8And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. (Jonah 4:3,8)
is weary of my life.
or, cut off while I live.
I willleave.
Job 7:11• 11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. (Job 7:11)
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Job 19:4• 4And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. (Job 19:4)
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Job 21:2‑4• 2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
 3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
 4As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? (Job 21:2‑4)
I will speak.
Job 10:15‑16• 15If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
 16For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me. (Job 10:15‑16)
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Job 6:2‑4,26• 2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
 3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
 4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
 26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind? (Job 6:2‑4,26)
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Job 7:11• 11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. (Job 7:11)
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Job 16:6‑16• 6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
 7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
 8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
 9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
 10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
 11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
 12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
 13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
 14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
 15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
 16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; (Job 16:6‑16)
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Psa. 32:3‑5• 3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
 4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
 5I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. (Psa. 32:3‑5)
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Isa. 38:15,17• 15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
 17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. (Isa. 38:15,17)
• The complaint against God (ch. 10:1-17). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)
• (Chap. 10) he lets himself loose in the dark despair which has settled down upon his soul. He is weary of life, and might as well pour out all his thoughts against God. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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