Catholic Public Domain Version
"If I say: “By no means will I speak this way.” I change my face and I am tortured with sorrow. "
— Job 9:27, Catholic Public Domain Version
“If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:”
“If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer; ”
“If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'”
“If I say,‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,’”
“If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.”
“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;”
“If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:”
Since the earth has been given into the hand of the impious, he covers the face of its judges; for if it is not him, then who is it?
My days have been swifter than a messenger; they have fled and have not seen goodness.
They have passed by like ships carrying fruits, just like an eagle flying to food.
If I say: “By no means will I speak this way.” I change my face and I am tortured with sorrow.
I have dreaded all my works, knowing that you did not spare the offender.
Yet, if I am also just as impious, why have I labored in vain?
If I had been washed with snow-like waters, and my hands were shining like the cleanest thing,