Bible Cross References
become cruel
Job 7:20
Are you harmed by my sin, you jailer? Why use me for your target practice? Am I so great a burden to you?
Job 7:21
Can't you ever forgive my sin? Can't you pardon the wrong I do? Soon I will be in my grave, and I'll be gone when you look for me.
Job 10:14-17
14
You were watching to see if I would sin, so that you could refuse to forgive me.
15
As soon as I sin, I'm in trouble with you, but when I do right, I get no credit. I am miserable and covered with shame.
16
If I have any success at all, you hunt me down like a lion; to hurt me you even work miracles.
17
You always have some witness against me; your anger toward me grows and grows; you always plan some new attack.
Job 13:25-28
25
Are you trying to frighten me? I'm nothing but a leaf; you are attacking a piece of dry straw.
26
You bring bitter charges against me, even for what I did when I was young.
27
You bind chains on my feet; you watch every step I take, and even examine my footprints.
28
As a result, I crumble like rotten wood, like a moth-eaten coat.
Job 16:9-14
9
In anger God tears me limb from limb; he glares at me with hate.
10
People sneer at me; they crowd around me and slap my face.
11
God has handed me over to evil people.
12
I was living in peace, but God took me by the throat and battered me and crushed me. God uses me for target practice
13
and shoots arrows at me from every side--- arrows that pierce and wound me; and even then he shows no pity.
14
He wounds me again and again; he attacks like a soldier gone mad with hate.
Job 19:6-9
6
Can't you see it is God who has done this? He has set a trap to catch me.
7
I protest his violence, but no one is listening; no one hears my cry for justice.
8
God has blocked the way, and I can't get through; he has hidden my path in darkness.
9
He has taken away all my wealth and destroyed my reputation.
Psalm 77:7-9
7
"Will the Lord always reject us? Will he never again be pleased with us?
8
Has he stopped loving us? Does his promise no longer stand?
9
Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has anger taken the place of his compassion?"
Jeremiah 30:14
All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer care about you. I have attacked you like an enemy; your punishment has been harsh because your sins are many and your wickedness is great.
thy strong hand
Job 6:9
If only he would go ahead and kill me!
Job 23:6
Would God use all his strength against me? No, he would listen as I spoke.
Psalm 89:13
How powerful you are! How great is your strength!
1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves, then, under God's mighty hand, so that he will lift you up in his own good time.