Job 9:27

Bishop's Bible

If I say, I will forget my complayning, I will ceasse from my wrath, and comfort my selfe:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If I said, “I will forget my complaint,change my expression, and smile,”

Hebrew Names Version
If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

King James Version
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

English Standard Version
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer,'

New Century Version
Even though I say, ‘I will forget my complaint; I will change the look on my face and smile,'

New English Translation
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,'

Amplified Bible
"If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sad appearance, and be cheerful and brighten up,'

New American Standard Bible
"Though I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put my face in order and be cheerful,'

World English Bible
If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

Geneva Bible (1587)
If I say, I wil forget my complaynt, I will cease from my wrath, and comfort mee,

Legacy Standard Bible
Though I say, ‘I will forget my musing,I will forsake my sad countenance and be cheerful,'

Berean Standard Bible
If I were to say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression, and smile,'

Contemporary English Version
Sometimes I try to be cheerful and to stop complaining,

Complete Jewish Bible
"If I say, ‘I'll forget my complaining, I'll put off my sad face and be cheerful,'

Darby Translation
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my [sad] countenance, and brighten up,

Easy-to-Read Version
"I could say, ‘I will not complain. I will forget my pain and put a smile on my face.'

George Lamsa Translation
I have forgotten my bitterness; if my mind or my thought would leave me alone, then I would find rest.

Good News Translation
If I smile and try to forget my pain, all my suffering comes back to haunt me; I know that God does hold me guilty. <

Lexham English Bible
Though I say, ‘I will forget my complaint; I will change my expression, and I will rejoice,'

Literal Translation
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will loosen my face and be cheerful,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
When I am purposed to forget my complayninges to chaunge my countenaunce, and to coforte my self:

American Standard Version
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer;

Bible in Basic English
If I say, I will put my grief out of mind, I will let my face be sad no longer and I will be bright;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
If I say: 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer',

King James Version (1611)
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leaue off my heauinesse, and comfort my selfe.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;

English Revised Version
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whanne Y seie, Y schal not speke so; Y chaunge my face, and Y am turmentid with sorewe.

Update Bible Version
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer;

Webster's Bible Translation
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:

New King James Version
If I say, "I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face and wear a smile,'

New Living Translation
If I decided to forget my complaints, to put away my sad face and be cheerful,

New Life Bible
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaining. I will put off my sad face and be happy,'

New Revised Standard
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint; I will put off my sad countenance and be of good cheer,'

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will lay aside my sad countenance, and brighten up,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.

Revised Standard Version
If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer,'

Young's Literal Translation
Though I say, `I forget my talking, I forsake my corner, and I brighten up!'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Though I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sad countenance and be cheerful,'

Contextual Overview

²⁵ My dayes are more swyft then a runner, they are gone & haue seene no good thing. ²⁶ They are passed away as the shippes that be good vnder sayle, & as the eagle that fleeth to the pray. ²⁷ If I say, I will forget my complayning, I will ceasse from my wrath, and comfort my selfe: ²⁸ Then am I afrayde of all my sorowes, for I knowe that thou wilt not iudge me innocent. ²⁹ If I be wicked, why then labour I in vayne? ³⁰ If I washe my selfe with snowe water, and make myne handes neuer so cleane at the well: ³¹ Yet shalt thou dippe me in the myre, and mine owne clothes shal defile me. ³² For he that I must geue aunswere vnto, and with whom I go to the lawe, is not a man as I am: ³³ Neither is there any dayesman to lay his hande betweene vs. ³⁴ Let hym take his rodde away from me, yea let hym make me no more afrayde of him,

Bible Verse Review
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Job 7:13, Psalms 77:2, Psalms 77:3, Jeremiah 8:18

Reciprocal: Job 30:15 - Terrors Psalms 13:2 - take Psalms 73:13 - Verily Philippians 2:26 - full 1 Peter 1:6 - ye are

Cross-References

Genesis 9:9
Beholde, I, euen I establishe my couenaunt with you, and with your seede after you:

Genesis 9:10
And with euery liuing creature that is with you, in foule, in cattell, in euery beast of the earth whiche is with you, of all that go out of the arke, whatsoeuer liuing thyng of the earth it be.

Genesis 9:13
I do set my bowe in the cloude, and it shall be for a token betweene me and the earth.

Genesis 9:14
And it shall come to passe, that when I bryng a cloude vpon the earth, the bowe also shalbe seene in ye same cloude.

Isaiah 11:10
And in that day shall the gentiles enquire after the roote of Iesse, whiche shalbe set vp for a token vnto the people, and his rest shalbe glorious.

Hosea 2:14
Wherefore beholde, I wyll allure her and bryng her into the wildernesse, and speake frendly vnto her.

Malachi 1:11
From the rysing of the sunne vnto the going downe of the same my name is great among the gentiles, and in euery place incense shalbe offred to my name, & a pure offering: for my name is great among the very heathen, saith the Lord of hoastes.

Acts 17:14
And then immediatly the brethren sent away Paul, to go as it were to the sea: but Silas & Timotheus abode there styll.

Romans 11:12
Nowe, yf the fall of them be ye ryches of the worlde, and the minishyng of the, the ryches of the gentiles: Howe much more their fulnesse?

Romans 15:12
And againe Esaias saith: There shalbe the roote of Iesse, and he that shall rise to raigne ouer the gentiles, in hym shall the gentiles trust.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If I say, I will forget my complaint,.... The cause of it, the loss of his children, servants, substance, and health, and endeavour to think no more of these things, and cease complaining about them, and attempt to bury them in oblivion, and change his note:

I will leave off my heaviness; his melancholy thoughts, words, airs, and looks; or "forsake my face" h, put on another countenance, a more pleasent and cheerful one; the Jewish commentators generally interpret it, "my anger", either at the dispensations of Providence, or at his friends:

and comfort [myself]; that things were not worse with him than they were; or strengthen i himself, as the word is rendered in Amos 5:9; against his fears, and troubles, and dejection of mind, determining to take heart, and be of good courage, and not sink, and succumb, and faint under his burdens: none but God, Father, Son, and Spirit, can give comfort to distressed ones, whether on temporal or spiritual accounts; but good men may make use of means for comfort, such as hearing the word, reading the Scriptures, prayer, meditation, and conversation with good men.

h אעזבה פני "relinquam facies meas", Montanus, Bolducius, Schmidt. i אבליגה "confirmabo vel roborabo cor meum", Mercerus; so R. R.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If I say, I will forget my complaint - If I resolve that I will leave off complaining, and will be more cheerful, I find it all in vain. My fears and sorrows return, and all my efforts to be cheerful are ineffectual

I will leave off my heaviness - The word rendered “my heaviness” here (פני pânam) denotes literally “my face;” and the reference is to the sad and sorrowful countenance which he had. “If I should lay that aside, and endeavor to be cheerful.”

And comfort myself - The word rendered comfort here (בלג bâlag) in Arabic means to be bright, to shine forth; and it would here be better rendered by “brighten up.” We have the same expression still when we say to one who is sad and melancholy, “brighten up; be cheerful.” The meaning is, that Job endeavored to appear pleasant and cheerful, but it was in vain. His sorrows pressed heavily on him, and weighed down his spirits in spite of himself, and made him sad.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 9:27. I will forget my complaint — I will forsake or forego my complaining. I will leave off my heaviness. VULGATE, I will change my countenance - force myself to smile, and endeavour to assume the appearance of comfort.