the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Job 23:2
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"My complaint today is still a bitter one, and I try hard not to groan aloud.
Even today is my complaint rebellious: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Even today is my complaint rebellious: My hand is heavy on my groaning.
"My complaint is still bitter today. I groan because God's heavy hand is on me.
"Even today my complaint is still bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.
Even to-day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
"Even today is my complaint rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
"Even today my complaint is contentious; His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
"Today also my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy on account of my groaning.
Now also my word is in bitternesse, and the hond of my wounde is agreggid on my weilyng.
"Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
Today I complain bitterly, because God has been cruel and made me suffer.
Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.
"Today too my complaint is bitter; my hand is weighed down because of my groaning.
Even to-day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
"I am still complaining today. I groan because God is still making me suffer.
Even to-day is my complaint bitter; my hand is become heavy because of my groaning.
Euen to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heauier then my groning.
"Even today my complaining is bitter. His hand is heavy even when I cry inside myself.
"Today also my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.
Though my talke be this day in bitternes, and my plague greater then my groning,
Even today is my complaint bitter; Gods hand is heavier and increases my groaning.
Even to-day, is my complaint rebellion? His hand, is heavier than my groaning.
Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning.
"Today also my complaint is bitter, his hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
Though my talke be this day in bitternesse, and my plague greater then my groning.
Yea, I know that pleading is out of my reach; and his hand has been made heavy upon my groaning.
Today also my complaint is bitter.His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
"Even today is my complaint rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
"Even today my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy in addition to my groaning.
Even today my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy over my groaning.
Also -- to-day [is] my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.
My sayenge is yet this daye in bytternes, and my hande heuy amonge my groninges.
"Even today my complaint is rebellion; His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
"Even today my complaint is bitter;My [fn] hand is listless because of my groaning.
"Even today my complaint is rebellion; His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
"Even today my musing is rebellion;His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
my complaint: Job 6:2, Job 10:1, Lamentations 3:19, Lamentations 3:20, Psalms 77:2-9
stroke: Heb. hand
heavier: Job 11:6
Reciprocal: Job 1:18 - there came Job 3:10 - hid Psalms 6:6 - I am Jeremiah 45:3 - added
Cross-References
Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord .
And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.
And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Even today [is] my complaint bitter,.... Job's afflictions were continued on him long; he was made to possess months of vanity; and, as he had been complaining ever since they were upon him, he still continued to complain to that day, "even" after all the comforts his friends pretended to administer to him, as Jarchi observes: his complaints were concerning his afflictions, and his friends' ill usage of him under them; not of injustice in God in afflicting him, though he thought he dealt severely with him; but of the greatness of his afflictions, they being intolerable, and his strength unequal to them, and therefore death was more eligible to him than life; and he complained of God's hiding his face from him, and not hearing him, nor showing him wherefore he contended with him, nor admitting an hearing of his cause before him: and this complaint of his was "bitter": the things he complained of were such, bitter afflictions, like the waters of Marah the Israelites could not drink of, Exodus 15:23; there was a great deal of wormwood and gall in his affliction and misery; and it was in a bitter way, in the bitterness of his soul, he made his complaint; and, what made his case still worse, he could not utter any complaint, so much as a sigh or a groan, but it was reckoned "provocation", or "stubbornness [and] rebellion", by his friends; so some render the word x, as Mr. Broughton does, "this day my sighing is holden a rebellion": there is indeed a great deal of rebellion oftentimes in the hearts, words and actions, conduct and behaviour, even of good men under afflictions, as were in the Israelites in the wilderness; and a difficult thing it is to complain without being guilty of it; though complaints may be without it, yet repinings and murmurings are always attended with it:
and my stroke is heavier than my groaning; or "my hand" y, meaning either his own hand, which was heavy, and hung down, his spirits failing, his strength being exhausted, and so his hands weak, feeble, and remiss, that he could not hold them up through his afflictions, and his groanings under them, see Psalms 102:5; or the hand of God upon him, his afflicting hand, which had touched him and pressed hard upon him, and lay heavy, and was heavier than his groanings showed; though he groaned much, he did not groan more, nor so much, as his afflictions called for; and therefore it was no wonder that his complaint was bitter, nor should it be reckoned rebellion and provocation; see Job 6:2.
x מרי "exacerbatio", Montanus, Vatablus, Schmidt; "exasperatio", Mercerus, Drusius; "pertinacia", Bolducius; "contumacia habetur", Cocceius; "rebellionem haberi", Junius Tremellius "rebellio est", Piscator, Codurcus. y ידי "manus mea", Montanus, Vatablus, Mercerus, Drusius, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Even to-day - At the present time. I am not relieved. You afford me no consolation. All that you say only aggravates my woes.
My complaint - See the notes at Job 21:3.
Bitter - Sad, melancholy, distressing. The meaning is, not that he made bitter complaints in the sense which those words would naturally convey, or that he meant to find fault with God, but that his case was a hard one. His friends furnished him no relief, and he had in vain endeavored to bring his cause before God. This is now, as he proceeds to state, the principal cause of his difficulty. He knows not where to find God; he cannot get his cause before him.
My stroke - Margin, as in Hebrew “hand;” that is, the hand that is upon me, or the calamity that is inflicted upon me. The hand is represented as the instrument of inflicting punishment, or causing affliction; see the notes at Job 19:21.
Heavier than my groaning - My sighs bear no proportion to my sufferings. They are no adequate expression of my woes. If you think I complain; if I am heard to groan, yet the sufferings which I endure are far beyond what these would secm to indicate. Sighs and groans are not improper. They are prompted by nature, and they furnish “some” relief to a sufferer. But they should not be:
(1) with a spirit of murmuring or complaining;
(2) they should not be beyond what our sufferings demand, or the proper expression of our sufferings. They should not be such as to lead others to suppose we suffer more than we actually do.
(3) they should - when they are extorted from us by the severity of suffering - lead us go look to that world where no groan will ever be heard.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 23:2. Even to-day is my complaint bitter — Job goes on to maintain his own innocence, and shows that he has derived neither conviction nor consolation from the discourses of his friends. He grants that his complaint is bitter; but states that, loud as it may be, the affliction which he endures is heavier than his complaints are loud.
Mr. Good translates: "And still is my complaint rebellion?" Do ye construe my lamentations over my unparalleled sufferings as rebellion against God? This, in fact, they had done from the beginning: and the original will justify the version of Mr. Good; for מרי meri, which we translate bitter, may be derived from מרה marah, "he rebelled."
