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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Gill's Exposition
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth,.... From speaking and complaining; seeing, besides the common lot of mankind, which is a state of warfare, sorrow, and trouble, and is as much as a man can well…
Barnes' Notes
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth - The idea in this verse is, “such is my distress at the prospect of dying, that I cannot but express it. The idea of going away from all my comforts, and of…
Job, observing perhaps that his friends, though they would not interrupt him in his discourse, yet began to grow weary, and not to heed much what he said, here turns to God, and speaks to him. If men…
Cambridge Bible
Job heaps image upon image to set before himself and the eye of God the brevity of life, the weaver's shuttle (Job 7:7), the wind (Job 7:7), the morning cloud (Job 7:7; Hos 6:4), ending with a…
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