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Job 21

Job 21:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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As for me, is 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
to man
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
? and if it were so, why should not my spirit
ruwach (Hebrew #7307)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: from 7306
be μtroubled
qatsar (Hebrew #7114)
to dock off, i.e. curtail (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative); especially to harvest (grass or grain)
KJV usage: X at all, cut down, much discouraged, grieve, harvestman, lothe, mourn, reap(-er), (be, wax) short(-en, -er), straiten, trouble, vex.
Pronounce: kaw-tsar'
Origin: a primitive root
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shortened.

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is my complaint.
Job 7:11‑21• 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.
 12Am I a sea, or a monster,{HR}That thou settest guard over me?
 13When I say, My bed shall comfort me,{HR}My couch shall ease my complaint,
 14Then thou shakest me with dreams,{HR}And makest me tremble through visions of the night,
 15So that my soul chooseth strangling,{HR}Death rather than these bones: I would not live on;
 16I loathe it: let me alone; my days are vanity.
 17What is man that thou magnifiest him,{HR}And that thou settest thy mind on him,
 18And that thou visitest him every morning,{HR}And every moment triest him?
 19How long dost not thou look away from me,{HR}Nor lettest me alone till I swallow my spittle?
 20I have sinned; what could I do to thee?{HR}Watcher of men, why makest thou me thy mark,{HR}So that I am become a burden to myself?
 21And why dost not thou pardon my transgression,{HR}And put away my iniquity?{HR}For now shall I lie in the dust,{HR}And, if thou seekest after me, I am no more. (Job 7:11‑21)
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Job 10:1‑2• 1My soul is weary of my life;{HR}I will give way to my plaint,{HR}I will speak in the bitterness of my soul,
 2I will say to God, Condemn me not;{HR}Let me know why thou contendest with me, (Job 10:1‑2)
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1 Sam. 1:16• 16Take not thy handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my grief and provocation have I spoken hitherto. (1 Sam. 1:16)
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Psa. 22:1‑3• 1To the chief musician, upon the hind of the dawn; a Psalm of David.{HR}My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?{HR}Far off from my deliverance, the words of my roaring?
 2My God, I call by day, and thou answerest not,{HR}And by night, and there is no silence for me.
 3And thou art holy, inhabiting the praises of Israel. (Psa. 22:1‑3)
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Psa. 77:3‑9• 3I remembered God and was disquieted;{HR}I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
 4Thou holdest mine eyes watching,{HR}I am troubled and cannot speak.
 5I consider the days of old,{HR}The years of ancient times.
 6I call to remembrance my song in the night;{HR}I commune with mine own heart,{HR}And my spirit maketh diligent search.
 7Will the Lord cast off forever?{HR}And will he be favourable no more?
 8Hath his mercy failed forever?{HR}Hath the word come to an end from generation to generation?
 9Hath God forgotten to be gracious?{HR}Or hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. (Psa. 77:3‑9)
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Psa. 102:1• 1A prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and before Jehovah poureth out his complaint.{HR}Jehovah, hear my prayer,{HR}And let my cry come unto thee. (Psa. 102:1)
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Psa. 102•  (Psa. 102)
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Psa. 142:2‑3• 2I pour out in his presence my plaint;{HR}My distress in his presence show.
 3When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,{HR}Thou knewest my path;{HR}In the way that I go they hid a snare for me. (Psa. 142:2‑3)
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Matt. 26:38• 38Then he says to them, My soul is very sorrowful even unto death; remain here and watch with me. (Matt. 26:38)
if it were.
2 Kings 6:26‑27• 26And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him saying, Help, my lord, O king.
 27And he said, If Jehovah do not help thee whence shall I help thee? Out of the threshing-floor, or out of the winepress? (2 Kings 6:26‑27)
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Psa. 42:11• 11Why art thou cast down,{HR}[O] my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me?{HR}Wait thou for God, for I shall yet praise him,{HR}The help of my countenance and my God. (Psa. 42:11)
troubled.
Heb. shortened.
Ex. 6:9• 9And Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel; but they did not listen to Moses from anguish of spirit, and from hard service. (Ex. 6:9)
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Ex. 6•  (Ex. 6)
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J. N. Darby Translation

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As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?

W. Kelly Translation

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As for me, [is] my complaint to man?{HR}And why then should not my spirit be short?