Job 9:27

And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

In Context

26Or again, is there a trace of their path left by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks its prey?

28I quake in all my limbs, for I know that thou wilt not leave me alone as innocent.

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Cross References

Job 7:11Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.

Psalms 77:2+ 77:2 Mat. 13. 35. I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter dark sayings which have been 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 →

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