Job 7:11

Don'T Forget!

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“He will not return again to his house,
Nor will his place know about him anymore. 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 [O Lord].
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“Am I the sea, or the sea monster,
That You set a guard over me?

Bitterness of My Soul

Keep Silent

Restrain My Mouth

Refrain My Mouth

Job

Psalm 40:9

I have proclaimed good news of righteousness [and the joy that comes from obedience to You] in the great assembly;
Behold, I will not restrain my lips [from proclaiming Your righteousness],
As You know, O Lord.

1 Samuel 1:10

Hannah was greatly distressed, and she prayed to the Lord and wept in anguish.

Job 10:1

“I am disgusted with my life and loathe it!
I will give free expression to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 21:25

Whereas another dies with a bitter soul,
Never even tasting pleasure or good fortune.

Isaiah 38:15

“What shall I say?
For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it;
I will wander aimlessly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

Genesis 42:21

And they said to one another, “Truly we are guilty regarding our brother [Joseph], because we saw the distress and anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us [to let him go], yet we would not listen [to his cry]; so this distress and anguish has come on us.”

2 Kings 4:27-28

When she came to the mountain to the man of God, she took hold of his feet. Gehazi approached to push her away; but the man of God said, “Let her alone, for her soul is desperate and troubled within her; and the Lord has hidden the reason from me and has not told me.”

Job 6:26

“Do you intend to reprove my words [with a convincing argument],
When the words of one in despair belong to the wind [and go ignored]?

Job 10:15

‘If I am wicked, woe to me [for judgment comes]!
And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.
For I am sated and filled with disgrace and the sight of my misery.

Job 13:13

“Be silent before me so that I may speak;
And let happen to me what may.

Job 16:6

“If I speak [to you miserable comforters], my pain is not relieved;
And if I refrain [from speaking], what [pain or anguish] leaves me?

Job 21:3-4

“Bear with me, and I also will speak;
And after I have spoken, you may [continue to] mock [me].

Psalm 39:3

My heart was hot within me.
While I was musing the fire burned;
Then I spoke with my tongue:

Isaiah 38:17

“Indeed, it was for my own well-being that I had such bitterness;
But You have loved back my life from the pit of nothingness (destruction),
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

Matthew 26:37-38

And taking with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee [James and John], He began to be grieved and greatly distressed.

Luke 22:44

And being in agony [deeply distressed and anguished; almost to the point of death], He prayed more intently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down on the ground.

2 Corinthians 2:4

For I wrote to you out of great distress and with an anguished heart, and with many tears, not to cause you sorrow but to make you realize the [overflowing] love which I have especially for you.