Job 9:27
Though I say, I forget my talking, || I forsake my corner, and I brighten up!
Literal Standard 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 on with ships of reed, || As an eagle darts on food.
28I have been afraid of all my griefs, || I have known that You do not acquit me.
Cross References
Job 7:11Also I do not withhold my mouth—I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 77:2I sought the Lord in a day of my distress, || My hand has been spread out by night, || And it does not cease, || My soul has refused to be comforted.
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 →