King James Version
Job 9:27 in the King James Version says “If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:” — study this verse from Job chapter 9 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:”
Job 9:27 · KJV
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. swift: or, ships of Ebeh: Heb. ships of desire
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
KJV Study — Public Domain
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
“I will forget”
H7911to mislay, i.e., to be oblivious of, from want of memory or attention
“my heaviness”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“and comfort”
H1082to break off or loose (in a favorable or unfavorable sense), i.e., desist (from grief) or invade (with destruction)
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