Job 9:27
If I say: “By no means will I speak this way.” I change my face and I am tortured with sorrow.
Catholic Public Domain 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 have passed by like ships carrying fruits, just like an eagle flying to food.
28I have dreaded all my works, knowing that you did not spare the offender.
Cross References
Job 7:11And because of this, I will not restrain my mouth. I will speak in the affliction of my spirit. I will converse from the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 77:2I will open my mouth in parables. I will speak about concepts that are from the beginning.
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 →