Job 9:27 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁷If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

Job 9:27 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 7:13
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Psalms 77:2-3
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. …
Job 7:11
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.
Jeremiah 8:18
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

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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…