They said to one another, “Alas, we are paying the penalty for what we did to our brother; we saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this anguish has come upon us.”
Job 7:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul [O Lord]! American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible But I won’t keep quiet; I will speak in the adversity of my spirit, groan in the bitterness of my life. Catholic Public Domain Version And because of this, I will not restrain my mouth. I will speak in the affliction of my spirit. I will converse from the bitterness of my soul. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherefore I will not spare my month, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul. |
They said to one another, “Alas, we are paying the penalty for what we did to our brother; we saw his anguish when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this anguish has come upon us.”
“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.
“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I refrain, how much of it leaves me?
“Today also my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.
Beware! Do not turn to iniquity; because of that you have been tried by affliction.
Do you think that you can reprove words, as if the speech of the desperate were wind?
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint; I will put off my sad countenance and be of good cheer,’
my heart became hot within me. While I mused, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue:
I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; see, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O Lord.
But what can I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. All my sleep has fled because of the bitterness of my soul.
Surely it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness, but you have held back my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.
In his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.]]
For I wrote you out of much distress and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you grief but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.