2Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
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My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. …
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! …
And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Job is confident that he has wrong done him by his friends, and therefore, ill as he is, he will not give up the cause, nor let them have the last word. Here, I. He justifies his own resentments of his trouble (Job 23:2): Even to day , I own, my complaint is bitter ; for the affliction, the cause of the complaint, is so. There are wormwood and gall in the affliction and misery; my soul has them st…
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