Job 7:11

Job 7:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)“Therefore I will not keep silent; I will speak out in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"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.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“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.

Context of Job 7:11

9When a cloud vanishes, it is gone; In the same way one who goes down to Sheol does not come up. 10He will not return to his house again, Nor will his place know about him anymore. “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. 12Am I the sea, or the sea monster, That You set a guard over me? 13If I say, ‘My couch will comfort me, My bed will ease my complaint,’

Job 7:11 word by word

גַּם־אֲנִי֮ לֹ֤א אֶחֱשָׂ֫ךְ פִּ֥י אֲֽ֭דַבְּרָה בְּצַ֣ר רוּחִ֑י אָ֝שִׂ֗יחָה בְּמַ֣ר נַפְשִֽׁי׃Read the interlinear

• Thereforeגַּםgam · alsoH1571
• I will not restrainחָשַׂךְchâώak · to withholdH2820
• my mouthפֶּהpeh · lipH6310
• I will speakדָבַרdâbar · to speak: speakH1696
• in the anguishצַרtsar tsâr · distressH6862
• of my spiritרוּחַrûach · spiritH7307
• I will complainשִׂיחַώîyach · to museH7878
• the bitternessמַרmar mârâh · bitterH4751
• of my soulנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soulH5315

Cross-references for Job 7:11

• Job 6:26Do you intend to rebuke my words, When the words of one in despair belong to the wind?
• Job 10:1“I am disgusted with my own life; I will express my complaint freely; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Job 13:13“Be silent before me so that I may speak; Then let come upon me what may.
• Job 16:6“If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I refrain, what pain leaves me?
• Job 21:3Bear with me that I may speak; Then after I have spoken, you may mock me.
• Psalms 39:3My heart was hot within me, While I was musing the fire burned; Then I spoke with my tongue:
• Psalms 40:9I have proclaimed good news of righteousness in the great congregation; Behold, I will not restrain my lips, Lord, You know.
• Genesis 42:21Then they said to one another, “Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen; for that reason this distress has happened to us.”
• 2 Kings 4:27But she came to the man of God at the hill and took hold of his feet. And Gehazi came up to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is troubled within her; and the Lord has concealed it from me and has not informed me.”
• Matthew 26:37And He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with Him, and began to be grieved and distressed.
• Luke 22:44And being in agony, He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground].
• 2 Corinthians 2:4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.
• Job 10:15If I am wicked, woe to me! But if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head. I am full of shame, and conscious of my misery.
• Job 21:25While another dies with a bitter soul, Never even tasting anything good.
• 1 Samuel 1:10She, greatly distressed, prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly.
• Isaiah 38:15“What shall I say? For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it; I will walk quietly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

Commentaries on Job 7:11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11Therefore I will not refrain - All is hopeless; I will therefore indulge myself in complaining.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Therefore 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 being committed to the grave, to revisit the earth no more, is so painful that I cannot but give vent to my feelings.”Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-16Verses 7-16 Plain truths as to the shortness and vanity of man's life, and the certainty of death, do us good, when we think and speak of them with application to ourselves. Dying is done but once, and therefore it had need be well done. An error here is past retrieve. Other clouds arise, but the same cloud never returns: so a new generation of men is raised up, but the former generation vanishes away. Glorified saints shall return no more to the cares…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11I will not restrain my mouth: Job echoed Eliphaz's struggle to "keep from speaking" (4:2).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. Therefore, as such is my hard lot, I will at least have the melancholy satisfaction of venting my sorrow in words. The Hebrew opening words, "Therefore I, at all events," express self-elevation [Umbreit].Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Bitterness
• Complain
• Dust
• Preserver
• Terrify
• Wearisome

Commentaries on Job 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings