Job 23:2

WEB

²“Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.

KJV

²Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

BSB

²“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

FBV

²“Just the same, my complaints today remain bitter. In spite of my groaning he is still punishing me.

Extra References

Job 10:1

¹“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Psalms 32:4

⁴For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

Job 7:11

¹¹“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 11:6

⁶that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For true wisdom has two sides. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.

Job 6:2-3

²“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! ³For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore my words have been rash.

²In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted. ³I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah. ⁴You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak. ⁵I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. ⁶I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires: ⁷“Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more? ⁸Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations? ⁹Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah.

Lamentations 3:19-20

¹⁹Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness. ²⁰My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.