Job 9:27
If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.
28I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.
Cross References
Job 7:11Wherefore I will not spare my month, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 77:2I cried to the Lord with my voice; 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 →