11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-16)Job, observing perhaps that his friends, though they would not interrupt him in his discourse, yet began to grow weary, and not to heed much what he said, here turns to God, and speaks to him. If men will not hear us, God will; if men cannot help us, he can; for his arm is not shortened, neither is his ear heavy. Yet we must not go to school to Job here to learn how to speak to God; for, it must b…
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