Job 9:27
If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’
BSB
ASV
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer;
KJV
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
It is easy to preach patience to those that are in trouble, and to tell them they must forget their complaints and comfort themselves; but it is not so soon done as said.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Job 7:11Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
leads to
I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O LORD, do know.
In her bitter distress, Hannah prayed to the LORD and wept with many tears.
“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
What can I say? He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done this. I will walk slowly all my years because of the anguish of my soul.
Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.
Through
Job 7:13When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
leads to
I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
Through
Jeremiah 8:18My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.
leads to
Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
We have heard the report; our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.
