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Job 23:2

GriefDiscouragement and depression

1 Then Job answered and said,

Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

4 I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

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BSB
“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
KJV
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
WEB
“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
ASV
Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.
DARBY
Even to-day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
BLB
“Even this day my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy upon my groaning.
ÅB
Enda idag gjelder min klage for å være gjenstridighet; min hånd hviler dog tungt på mitt sukk[^1].
OTB
«Også i dag er min klage bitter;
Hans hånd er tung til tross for min sukk.
B1930
Ennu idag gjelder min klage for å være gjenstridighet; min hånd hviler dog tungt på mitt sukk. / < d.e. jeg søker dog å dempe min klage.>

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Job 10:1

    My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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  • Job 7:11

    Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

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  • Psalms 32:4

    For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

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  • Job 6:2–3

    Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

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  • Psalms 77:2–9

    In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

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  • Lamentations 3:19–20

    Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

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  • Job 11:6

    And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

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