Bible Strands
Job 10:1
“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job addresses God directly during his ongoing legal dispute, immediately before demanding an explanation for divine prosecution. The words — נָקְטָה (na.ke.Tah) = it loathes and אֶעֶזְבָה ('e.'ez.Vah) = I will let loose, framing the release of unfiltered complaint. The thread — This posture of raw lament recurs in Job 7:11, 1 Kings 19:4, and Numbers 11:15, where figures request death or refuse to restrain their speech under pressure. Why it lands — It requires readers to bring unvarnished distress to God rather than masking it with religious compliance.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Cross-references
- Job 7:11 Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
- 1 Kings 19:4 while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
- Numbers 11:15 If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
- Job 9:21 Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
- Jonah 4:8 As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
- Job 5:15 He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.
- Job 5:20 In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.
- Job 3:20 Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- Job 6:2 “If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
- Job 6:8 If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope: