The Meaning of Job 9:27 Explained

Job 9:27

KJV: If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

YLT: Though I say, 'I forget my talking, I forsake my corner, and I brighten up!'

Darby: If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sad countenance, and brighten up,

ASV: If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my'sad countenance, and be of good cheer;

KJV Reverse Interlinear

If I say,  I will forget  my complaint,  I will leave off  my heaviness,  and comfort  [myself]: 

What does Job 9:27 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 9:1-35 - "the Daysman"
Ponder the sublimity of the conceptions of God given in this magnificent passage. To God are attributed the earthquake that rocks the pillars on which the world rests, Job 9:6; the eclipse which hides the heavenly bodies, Job 9:7; the storm in which he bows the heavens and treads majestically on the waves, Job 9:8; and the creation of the constellations, Job 9:9. Who can dare to argue with or call to account so great a God as this? Job 9:10-19. Even if a man be outwardly and inwardly righteous (that is, so far as the measure of his light), yet in such a Presence the heart of the most perfect must condemn him. "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves"¦. God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all." We cannot but feel that this old-world thinker had a truer view of that conscious imperfection and sin which must be experienced by every mortal who has a right appreciation of the holiness of God, than have those who refuse to say the Lord's Prayer because it contains a petition for forgiveness!
Truly we need that Daysman! But we have Him in Jesus our Mediator, who can lay His hand on God and us, Job 9:33; 1 Timothy 2:5. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 9

1  Job acknowledges God's justice
22  Man's innocence is not to be condemned by afflictions

What do the individual words in Job 9:27 mean?

If I say I will forget my complaint I will put off my sad face and wear a smile
אִם־ אָ֭מְרִי אֶשְׁכְּחָ֣ה שִׂיחִ֑י אֶעֶזְבָ֖ה פָנַ֣י וְאַבְלִֽיגָה

אָ֭מְרִי  I  say 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct, first person common singular
Root: אָמַר 
Sense: to say, speak, utter.
אֶשְׁכְּחָ֣ה  I  will  forget 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect Cohortative, first person common singular
Root: כָּשַׁח 
Sense: to forget, ignore, wither.
שִׂיחִ֑י  my  complaint 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: שִׂיחַ  
Sense: meditation, complaint, musing.
אֶעֶזְבָ֖ה  I  will  put  off 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect Cohortative, first person common singular
Root: עָזַב 
Sense: to leave, loose, forsake.
פָנַ֣י  my  sad  face 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common singular
Root: לִפְנֵי 
Sense: face.
וְאַבְלִֽיגָה  and  wear  a  smile 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative, first person common singular
Root: בָּלַג  
Sense: to gleam, smile.

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