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Job 9:27
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
Job 9:27 · World English Bible
Job 9:27 in other translations
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’
If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'
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In context
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
25 “Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
26 They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
27 If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
28 I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
29 I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
30 If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
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