Job 9:27 - Exposition

If I say, I will forget my complaint (comp. above, Job 7:13 ). Job represents himself as sometimes, for a moment, imagining that he might put aside his load of sorrow by not thinking of it. He tries, and says to himself, "I will forget," etc.; but in vain. The whole mass of his sufferings seems to rise up against him, and make even momentary forgetfulness impossible. I will leave off my heaviness ; or, my black looks. And comfort myself (comp. Job 10:20 and Psalms 39:13 , where the same verb is rendered "recover strength").