OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 27

Job 9:27

If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,

I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Job 9:27 in context

Job 9:24–30

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked.

He covers the faces of its judges.

If not he, then who is it?

“Now my days are swifter than a runner.

They flee away. They see no good.

They have passed away as the swift ships,

as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

Selected verse

If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,

I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’

I am afraid of all my sorrows.

I know that you will not hold me innocent.

I will be condemned.

Why then do I labor in vain?

If I wash myself with snow,

and cleanse my hands with lye,

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