27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
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When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
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. …
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.
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-35)Job here grows more and more querulous, and does not conclude this chapter with such reverent expressions of God’s wisdom and justice as he began with. Those that indulge a complaining humour know not to what indecencies, nay, to what impieties, it will hurry them. The beginning of that strife with God is as the letting forth of water; therefore leave it off before it be meddled with . When we are…
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