Job 23:2
Even now is my complaint bitter: my suffering is heavier than my groans.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
In Context
3Oh who would grant that I knew where I might find him! that I might attain to his Judgment throne!
Cross References
Job 7:11Therefore will I also not restrain my mouth: I will speak in the anguish of my spirit: I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 11:6And that he would declare unto thee the secrets of wisdom; for it is double to that which is really in our possession: and thou wouldst experience that God overlooketh unto thee much of thy iniquity.
Psalms 77:2(77:3) On the day of my distress I sought the Lord; in the night my hand was stretched out, and did not cease: my soul refused to be comforted.
Lamentations 3:28That he sit in solitude and be silent; because He hath laid it upon him;
Matthew Henry on Job 23:2-8
The Reply of Job to Eliphaz; Job Appeals from Man to God. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. 3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! 4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments. 5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. 6 Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me. 7 There the… Read the whole commentary →