Job 9:27

JPS Old Testament

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If I said, “I will forget my complaint,change my expression, and smile,”

Hebrew Names Version
If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

King James Version
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

English Standard Version
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer,'

New Century Version
Even though I say, ‘I will forget my complaint; I will change the look on my face and smile,'

New English Translation
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,'

Amplified Bible
"If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sad appearance, and be cheerful and brighten up,'

New American Standard Bible
"Though I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put my face in order and be cheerful,'

World English Bible
If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

Geneva Bible (1587)
If I say, I wil forget my complaynt, I will cease from my wrath, and comfort mee,

Legacy Standard Bible
Though I say, ‘I will forget my musing,I will forsake my sad countenance and be cheerful,'

Berean Standard Bible
If I were to say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression, and smile,'

Contemporary English Version
Sometimes I try to be cheerful and to stop complaining,

Complete Jewish Bible
"If I say, ‘I'll forget my complaining, I'll put off my sad face and be cheerful,'

Darby Translation
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my [sad] countenance, and brighten up,

Easy-to-Read Version
"I could say, ‘I will not complain. I will forget my pain and put a smile on my face.'

George Lamsa Translation
I have forgotten my bitterness; if my mind or my thought would leave me alone, then I would find rest.

Good News Translation
If I smile and try to forget my pain, all my suffering comes back to haunt me; I know that God does hold me guilty. <

Lexham English Bible
Though I say, ‘I will forget my complaint; I will change my expression, and I will rejoice,'

Literal Translation
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will loosen my face and be cheerful,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
When I am purposed to forget my complayninges to chaunge my countenaunce, and to coforte my self:

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

Bible in Basic English
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;

King James Version (1611)
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leaue off my heauinesse, and comfort my selfe.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If I say, I will forget my complayning, I will ceasse from my wrath, and comfort my selfe:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if I should say, I will forget to speak, I will bow down my face and groan;

English Revised Version
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whanne Y seie, Y schal not speke so; Y chaunge my face, and Y am turmentid with sorewe.

Update Bible Version
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer;

Webster's Bible Translation
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:

New King James Version
If I say, "I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face and wear a smile,'

New Living Translation
If I decided to forget my complaints, to put away my sad face and be cheerful,

New Life Bible
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaining. I will put off my sad face and be happy,'

New Revised Standard
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint; I will put off my sad countenance and be of good cheer,'

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will lay aside my sad countenance, and brighten up,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.

Revised Standard Version
If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer,'

Young's Literal Translation
Though I say, `I forget my talking, I forsake my corner, and I brighten up!'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Though I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sad countenance and be cheerful,'

Contextual Overview

²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good. ²⁶ They are passed away as the swift ships; as the vulture that swoopeth on the prey. ²⁷ If I say: 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer', ²⁸ I am afraid of all my pains, I know that Thou wilt not hold me guiltless. ²⁹ I shall be condemned; why then do I labour in vain? ³⁰ If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; ³¹ Yet wilt Thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. ³² For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him, that we should come together in judgment. ³³ There is no arbiter betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. ³⁴ Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His terror make me afraid;

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 9:9
'As for Me, behold, I establish My covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

Genesis 9:10
and with every living creature that is with you, the fowl, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.

Genesis 9:13
I have set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth.

Genesis 9:14
And it shall come to pass, when I bring clouds over the earth, and the bow is seen in the cloud,

Isaiah 11:10
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse, that standeth for an ensign of the peoples, unto him shall the nations seek; and his resting-place shall be glorious.

Hosea 2:14
And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, whereof she hath said: 'These are my hire that my lovers have given me'; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

Malachi 1:11
For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same My name is great among the nations; and in every place offerings are presented unto My name, even pure oblations; for My name is great among the nations, saith the LORD of hosts.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If I say, I will forget my complaint,.... The cause of it, the loss of his children, servants, substance, and health, and endeavour to think no more of these things, and cease complaining about them, and attempt to bury them in oblivion, and change his note:

I will leave off my heaviness; his melancholy thoughts, words, airs, and looks; or "forsake my face" h, put on another countenance, a more pleasent and cheerful one; the Jewish commentators generally interpret it, "my anger", either at the dispensations of Providence, or at his friends:

and comfort [myself]; that things were not worse with him than they were; or strengthen i himself, as the word is rendered in Amos 5:9; against his fears, and troubles, and dejection of mind, determining to take heart, and be of good courage, and not sink, and succumb, and faint under his burdens: none but God, Father, Son, and Spirit, can give comfort to distressed ones, whether on temporal or spiritual accounts; but good men may make use of means for comfort, such as hearing the word, reading the Scriptures, prayer, meditation, and conversation with good men.

h אעזבה פני "relinquam facies meas", Montanus, Bolducius, Schmidt. i אבליגה "confirmabo vel roborabo cor meum", Mercerus; so R. R.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If I say, I will forget my complaint - If I resolve that I will leave off complaining, and will be more cheerful, I find it all in vain. My fears and sorrows return, and all my efforts to be cheerful are ineffectual

I will leave off my heaviness - The word rendered “my heaviness” here (פני pânam) denotes literally “my face;” and the reference is to the sad and sorrowful countenance which he had. “If I should lay that aside, and endeavor to be cheerful.”

And comfort myself - The word rendered comfort here (בלג bâlag) in Arabic means to be bright, to shine forth; and it would here be better rendered by “brighten up.” We have the same expression still when we say to one who is sad and melancholy, “brighten up; be cheerful.” The meaning is, that Job endeavored to appear pleasant and cheerful, but it was in vain. His sorrows pressed heavily on him, and weighed down his spirits in spite of himself, and made him sad.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 9:27. I will forget my complaint — I will forsake or forego my complaining. I will leave off my heaviness. VULGATE, I will change my countenance - force myself to smile, and endeavour to assume the appearance of comfort.