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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 giveth he light to the wretched one,{HR}And life to the bitter [in] soul;
 21Who long for death, and it [is] not,{HR}And dig for it more than for hid treasure;
 22Who rejoice to dancing,{HR}Exult when they find the grave?
 23To a man whose way is hid,{HR}And whom God hath hedged in? (Job 3:20‑23)
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Job 6:8‑9• 8O that my request might come,{HR}And that God would grant my longing,
 9That it might please God to destroy me,{HR}That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! (Job 6:8‑9)
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Job 5:15‑16,20• 15And he saveth the poor from the sword out of their mouth,{HR}And from the hand of the strong;
 16So there is hope to the poor,{HR}And iniquity shutteth her mouth.
 20In famine he hath redeemed thee from death,{HR}And in war from the hand of the sword. (Job 5:15‑16,20)
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Job 9:21• 21I perfect! should not know my own soul,{HR}I should despise my life. (Job 9:21)
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Job 14:13• 13O that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol,{HR}Hide me till the turning of thine anger,{HR}Appoint me a set time, and then remember me! (Job 14:13)
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Num. 11:15• 15{i}And if thou deal thus with me, slay me, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, that I may not behold my wretchedness.{/i} (Num. 11:15)
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1 Kings 19:4• 4{i}And{/i} he 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; {i}and said{/i}, It is enough; now, O Jehovah, 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 Jehovah, 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• 11I also will not restrain my mouth,{HR}I will speak in the anguish of my spirit,{HR}I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. (Job 7:11)
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Job 19:4• 4And, after all, if I have erred,{HR}With me doth mine error lodge. (Job 19:4)
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Job 21:2‑4• 2Hear my speech with attention,{HR}And let this be your consolation.
 3Suffer me, and I will speak,{HR}And after I have spoken thou mayest mock.
 4As for me, [is] my complaint to man?{HR}And why then should not my spirit be short? (Job 21:2‑4)
I will speak.
Job 10:15‑16• 15If I be guilty, woe unto me!{HR}And righteous, I durst not raise my head,{HR}Filled with shame, and seeing my misery;
 16And should it hold itself up, as a lion thou wouldest hunt me,{HR}And turn again, and act wondrously against me. (Job 10:15‑16)
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Job 6:2‑4,26• 2O that my vexation were exactly weighed,{HR}And my calamity raised in the scales together!
 3For now is it heavier than the sand of the seas,{HR}Therefore do my words rave.
 4For the arrows of the Almighty are in me,{HR}The poison of which my spirit drinketh up.{HR}The terrors of God array themselves against me.
 26Think you to reprove words,{HR}When the speeches of one despairing are but wind? (Job 6:2‑4,26)
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Job 7:11• 11I also will not restrain my mouth,{HR}I will speak in the anguish of my spirit,{HR}I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. (Job 7:11)
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Job 16:6‑16• 6If I speak my pain is not assuaged,{HR}And if I forbear, what departeth from me?
 7Surely now he hath exhausted me,{HR}Thou hast desolated all my company, and bound me;
 8It became a witness, and rose up against me,{HR}My leanness accuseth me to the face;
 9His wrath hath torn and warred on me;{HR}He hath gnashed on me with his teeth;{HR}Mine enemy whetteth his eyes on me.
 10They gaped at me with their mouth,{HR}With reproach they smote my cheeks.{HR}They strengthen themselves together against me.
 11God hath shut me up to the unrighteous,{HR}And thrown me over into the hand of the wicked.
 12I sat at ease, and he smashed me,{HR}And seized me by the neck, and dashed me,{HR}And set me as a mark for himself;
 13His arrows compassed me about;{HR}He cleaveth my reins, and spareth not.{HR}He poureth out my gall on the ground.
 14He breaketh me breach upon breach,{HR}He runneth upon me like a warrior.
 15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,{HR}And stuck my horn into the dust.
 16My face is red with weeping,{HR}And on mine eyelids [is] death shade, (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.
 4For by day and by night thy hand is heavy upon me;{HR}My moisture hath been changed into the droughts of summer. Selah.
 5I make known my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not covered;{HR}I said I will confess concerning my transgressions unto Jehovah,{HR}And thou hast taken away 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 to me, and himself hath done [it]: I shall go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.
 17Behold, for peace I had bitterness on bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction, 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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My soul is weary of my life;{HR}I will give way to my plaint,{HR}I will speak in the bitterness of my soul,