Job 9:27 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁷ If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer,’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer and brighten up,

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer;

Common English Bible

²⁷ If I say, “I’ll forget my lament, put on a different face so I can smile,”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ If I say: "By no means will I speak this way." I change my face and I am tortured with sorrow.

Job 9:27 Cross References

Job 16:6

“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

Job 7:11

“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.

Job 7:13

When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’

Psalm 55:2

Attend to me, and answer me; I am overcome by my trouble. I am distraught

Jeremiah 8:18

My grief is beyond healing, my heart is sick within me.