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

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Job 7:11, Job 7:11, 1 Kings 19:4, 1 Kings 19:4, Numbers 11:15

2I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

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Psalms 139:23, Psalms 139:24, Psalms 139:23, Psalms 139:24, Job 9:29

3Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

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Isaiah 64:8, Isaiah 64:8, Job 14:15, Psalms 138:8, Job 14:15

4Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

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1 Samuel 16:7, 1 Samuel 16:7, Luke 16:15, Luke 16:15, Job 9:32

5Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years,

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2 Peter 3:8, 2 Peter 3:8, Psalms 90:2, Psalms 90:4, Psalms 90:2

6that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

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Zephaniah 1:12, Jeremiah 2:34, Psalms 44:21, Job 14:16, Psalms 10:15

7Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

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Deuteronomy 32:39, Deuteronomy 32:39, 1 Thessalonians 2:10, Job 31:6, Psalms 26:1

8"'Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.

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Psalms 119:73, Psalms 119:73, Isaiah 43:7, Isaiah 43:7, Jeremiah 18:3

9Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

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Genesis 2:7, Genesis 2:7, Isaiah 64:8, Isaiah 64:8, Genesis 3:19

10Haven't you poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

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Psalms 139:14, Psalms 139:16, Psalms 139:14, Psalms 139:16

11You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

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Ezekiel 37:4, Ezekiel 37:8, Ezekiel 37:4, Ezekiel 37:8, Ephesians 4:16

12You have granted me life and loving kindness. Your visitation has preserved my spirit.

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Acts 17:28, Job 33:4, Acts 17:28, Job 33:4, Matthew 6:25

13Yet you hid these things in your heart. I know that this is with you:

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Job 23:13, Job 23:13, Deuteronomy 32:39, Deuteronomy 32:39, Ecclesiastes 8:6

14if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

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Job 7:21, Job 7:21, Psalms 130:3, Psalms 130:3, Exodus 34:7

15If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

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Isaiah 3:11, Isaiah 3:11, Job 9:15, Job 9:15, Job 9:20

16If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

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Isaiah 38:13, Isaiah 38:13, Lamentations 3:10, Lamentations 3:10, Job 5:9

17You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

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Ruth 1:21, Job 16:8, Ruth 1:21, Job 16:8, Psalms 55:19

18"'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

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Jeremiah 20:14, Jeremiah 20:18, Jeremiah 20:14, Jeremiah 20:18, Job 11:20

19I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

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Psalms 58:8, Psalms 58:8

20Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

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Job 14:1, Job 14:1, Psalms 39:13, Psalms 39:13, Job 13:21

21before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

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Job 3:5, 2 Samuel 12:23, Job 3:5, 2 Samuel 12:23, Job 16:22

22the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

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Jeremiah 2:6, Psalms 88:12, Psalms 44:19, Job 3:5, Job 38:17