Cross references

Job 10:1

“I loathe my own life;

I will express my complaint

and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10:1 BSB

Job 10:1 has 21 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Job 7:11 (12 votes) and 1 Kings 19:4 (7 votes). 19 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Numbers 11 to Jonah 4.

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Which verses does Job 10:1 point to?

The 20 strongest of 21, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Job 7:1112 votes

    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.

  2. 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.”

  3. 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.”

  4. Job 9:214 votes

    Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.

  5. Jonah 4:84 votes

    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.”

  6. He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful. So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

  7. Job 5:203 votes

    In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

  8. Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul, who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure, …

  9. “If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales. For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas—no wonder my words have been rash. …

  10. If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope: that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!

  11. Job 6:262 votes
  12. Job 7:162 votes

    I loathe my life! I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

  13. If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction. Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

  14. Job 14:132 votes
  15. Job 19:42 votes

Which verses point to Job 10:1?

The 10 strongest of 19.