King James Version
Job 7:11 in the King James Version says “Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my...” — study this verse from Job chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
Job 7:11 · KJV
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
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.
Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
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properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“Therefore I will not refrain”
H2820to restrain or (reflexive) refrain; by implication, to refuse, spare, preserve; to observe
“my mouth”
H6310the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with prepos
“I will speak”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“of my spirit”
H7307wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the
“I will complain”
H7878to ponder, i.e., (by implication) converse (with oneself, and hence, aloud) or (transitively) utter
“in the bitterness”
H4751bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly
“of my soul”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
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