Job 9:27

THE MESSAGE

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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If I say, I will forget my complayning, I will ceasse from my wrath, 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 time is short—what's left of my life races off too fast for me to even glimpse the good. My life is going fast, like a ship under full sail, like an eagle plummeting to its prey. Even if I say, ‘I'll put all this behind me, I'll look on the bright side and force a smile,' All these troubles would still be like grit in my gut since it's clear you're not going to let up. The verdict has already been handed down—‘Guilty!'— so what's the use of protests or appeals? Even if I scrub myself all over and wash myself with the strongest soap I can find, It wouldn't last—you'd push me into a pigpen, or worse, so nobody could stand me for the stink. ³²"God and I are not equals; I can't bring a case against him. We'll never enter a courtroom as peers. How I wish we had an arbitrator to step in and let me get on with life— To break God's death grip on me, to free me from this terror so I could breathe again. Then I'd speak up and state my case boldly. As things stand, there is no way I can do it."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

Isaiah 11:10
On that day, Jesse's Root will be raised high, posted as a rallying banner for the peoples. The nations will all come to him. His headquarters will be glorious.

Hosea 2:14
"And now, here's what I'm going to do: I'm going to start all over again. I'm taking her back out into the wilderness where we had our first date, and I'll court her. I'll give her bouquets of roses. I'll turn Heartbreak Valley into Acres of Hope. She'll respond like she did as a young girl, those days when she was fresh out of Egypt.

Malachi 1:11
"I am honored all over the world. And there are people who know how to worship me all over the world, who honor me by bringing their best to me. They're saying it everywhere: ‘God is greater, this God -of-the-Angel-Armies.'

Ephesians 2:19
That's plain enough, isn't it? You're no longer wandering exiles. This kingdom of faith is now your home country. You're no longer strangers or outsiders. You belong here, with as much right to the name Christian as anyone. God is building a home. He's using us all—irrespective of how we got here—in what he is building. He used the apostles and prophets for the foundation. Now he's using you, fitting you in brick by brick, stone by stone, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone that holds all the parts together. We see it taking shape day after day—a holy temple built by God, all of us built into it, a temple in which God is quite at home.

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.