Job 3:20

Job 3:20
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

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Genesis 3:12
The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

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Genesis 30:1
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

Genesis 35:16
They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

Genesis 35:17
When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for now you will have another son.”

Genesis 35:18
As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

Genesis 35:19
Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).

Genesis 37:11
His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

Numbers 11:29
Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”

Job 3:2
Job answered:

Job 5:2
For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

Job 13:19
Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

Psalms 37:8
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

John 4:3
he left Judea and departed into Galilee.

2 Corinthians 7:10
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

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Genesis 32:8
He said, “If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape.”

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Genesis 37:32
They took the tunic of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, “We have found this. Examine it, now, and see if it is your son’s tunic or not.”

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Exodus 16:3
and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

Numbers 14:2
All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

Numbers 20:3
The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh!

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Numbers 11:14
I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

John 4:9
The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

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Ruth 1:20
She said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

Job 23:16
For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

Job 33:20
so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

Job 33:22
Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

Isaiah 38:15
What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

Isaiah 38:16
Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them. You restore me, and cause me to live.

Isaiah 38:17
Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

Lamentations 3:1
I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Lamentations 3:15
He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.

Lamentations 3:19
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.

John 11:9
Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

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1 Samuel 1:10
She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

1 Samuel 22:2
Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about four hundred men.

2 Samuel 17:8
Hushai said moreover, “You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are fierce in their minds, like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Your father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

2 Kings 4:27
When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”

Proverbs 14:10
The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

Proverbs 31:6
Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul.

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1 Kings 19:3
When he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

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2 Kings 2:11
As they continued on and talked, behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated them; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

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1 Chronicles 13:11
David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzza. He called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.

1 Chronicles 15:2
Then David said, “No one ought to carry God’s ark but the Levites. For Yahweh has chosen them to carry God’s ark, and to minister to him forever.”

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Job 3:8
Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

Job 3:9
Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

Job 3:10
because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

Job 3:13
For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

Job 14:1
“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Ecclesiastes 6:5
Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.

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Job 5:15
But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

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Job 5:16
So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

Job 5:20
In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

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Job 6:10
Let it still be my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Philippians 1:20
according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

Hebrews 12:11
All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

James 1:4
Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

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Job 17:13
If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

Job 17:14
if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’

Job 36:20
Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

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Job 20:22
In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.

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Job 9:21
I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

Job 9:23
If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

Job 21:7
“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

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Job 8:18
If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’

Job 12:13
“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

Job 16:7
But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.

Job 20:23
When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

Job 22:21
“Acquaint yourself with him now, and be at peace. By it, good will come to you.

Job 24:22
Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

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Job 24:16
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

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Psalms 88:3
For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol.

Psalms 88:4
I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

Psalms 88:5
set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

Psalms 88:6
You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

Psalms 88:7
Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

Psalms 88:8
You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

Psalms 88:9
My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

Psalms 88:10
Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah.

Psalms 88:11
Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

Psalms 88:12
Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Psalms 88:13
But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

Psalms 88:14
Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

Psalms 88:15
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

Psalms 88:16
Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

Psalms 88:17
They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

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Psalms 55:6
I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

Psalms 88:18
You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

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Proverbs 10:24
What the wicked fear will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

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Proverbs 16:15
In the light of the king’s face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.

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Ecclesiastes 9:4
For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 9:6
Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

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Ecclesiastes 7:11
Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 9:9
Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 11:7
Truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to see the sun.

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2 Samuel 1:9
He said to me, ‘Please stand beside me, and kill me, for anguish has taken hold of me because my life lingers in me.’

Isaiah 2:19
Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

Hosea 10:8
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. The thorn and the thistle will come up on their altars. They will tell the mountains, “Cover us!” and the hills, “Fall on us!”

Luke 23:30
Then they will begin to tell the mountains, ‘Fall on us!’ and tell the hills, ‘Cover us.’

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Job 10:22
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”

Job 11:14
If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.

Job 18:18
He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Isaiah 8:21
They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse their king and their God. They will turn their faces upward,

Isaiah 8:22
then look to the earth and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

Isaiah 9:2
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

Jude 1:13
wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

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Isaiah 15:4
Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them.

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