Job 9:27
If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright;
Bible in Basic English
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 go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.
28I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.
Cross References
Job 7:11So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.
Psalms 77:2\77:1\I was crying to God with my voice; even to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.
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 →