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Job 7:11
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Job 7:11
11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
11Therefore I will not refraine my mouth, I wil speake in the anguish of my spirit, I will complaine in the bitternesse of my soule.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 7:11
To hold back, restrain, or abstain.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The opening used for eating and speaking; also an opening, edge, command, or testimony by extension.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To utter words; to say, declare, address, or communicate by speech.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Extreme pain, distress, or grief; also to cause such distress.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Webster 1828
To utter expressions of grief; to lament.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
bitterness
A bitter quality or taste; figuratively, severe grief, distress, resentment, or hostility.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Open the full verse study10And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.
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Open the full verse study9I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.
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Open the full verse study1MY soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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Open the full verse study15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
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Open the full verse study17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
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Open the full verse study25And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
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Open the full verse study26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
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Open the full verse study4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
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Open the full verse study27And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.
28Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?
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Open the full verse study21¶ And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
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Open the full verse study15If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
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Open the full verse study13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
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Open the full verse study6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
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Open the full verse study3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
4As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
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Open the full verse study44And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
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Open the full verse study37And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
38Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
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Open the full verse study3My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
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