NET Bible
"If I say,‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,’"
— Job 9:27, NET Bible
“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 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:”
If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?
Renewed Complaint“My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.
They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.
If I say,‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,’
I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.
If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?
If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,