Job 23:2 ““Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groan…”

Job 23:2

“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

World English Bible

“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

American Standard Version

Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.

Geneva Bible 1599

Though my talke be this day in bitternes, and my plague greater then my groning,

Darby Translation

Even to-day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

Young's Literal Translation

Also — to-day [is] my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.

Bible in Basic English

Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.

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Cross references

“my complaint”

Job 10:1 Psalm 77:2–9 Job 6:2 Lamentations 3:19 Lamentations 3:20

Job 10:1 · BSB

“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Psalm 77:2–9 · BSB

In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.

Job 6:2 · BSB

“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.

Lamentations 3:19 · BSB

Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

Lamentations 3:20 · BSB

Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.

“heavier”

Job 11:6

Job 11:6 · BSB

and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.

Also

Psalm 32:4 Job 7:11

Psalm 32:4 · BSB

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

Job 7:11 · BSB

Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Then Job answered:

3If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.

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