Job 9:27
If I say, I will forget my complaint. I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
In Context
26They are passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
28I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that thou will not hold me innocent.
Cross References
Job 7:11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 77:2In the day of my trouble I sought LORD. My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not. My soul refused to be comforted.
Matthew Henry on Job 9:26-35
25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. 26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. 29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; 31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor… Read the whole commentary →