Job 9:27

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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

“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.

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

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

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