If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
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Gill's Exposition
I am afraid of all my sorrows,.... That they would return upon him, and surround him, and overwhelm him, so that he should not be able to stand up against them, or under them; that they would increase…
Barnes' Notes
If I say, I will forget my complaint - If I resolve that I will leave off complaining, and will be more cheerful, I find it all in vain. My fears and sorrows return, and all my efforts to be cheerful…
Job here grows more and more querulous, and does not conclude this chapter with such reverent expressions of God's wisdom and justice as he began with. Those that indulge a complaining humour know not…
Cambridge Bible
my complaint i. e. as always, my complaining, ch. Job 7:13.
my heaviness lit. my faces, my sad mien, 1Sa 1:18.
comfort myself lit. brighten up, ch. Job 10:20; Psa 39:13. The word in Arab, (balija)…