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Job 23

Job 23:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Even to day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
u is my complaint
siyach (Hebrew #7879)
a contemplation; by implication, an utterance
KJV usage: babbling, communication, complaint, meditation, prayer, talk.
Pronounce: see'-akh
Origin: from 7878
bitter
mriy (Hebrew #4805)
bitterness, i.e. (figuratively) rebellion; concretely, bitter, or rebellious
KJV usage: bitter, (most) rebel(-lion, -lious).
Pronounce: mer-ee'
Origin: from 4784
: my ηstroke
yad (Hebrew #3027)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)
KJV usage: (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
Pronounce: yawd
Origin: a primitive word
is heavier
kabad (Hebrew #3513)
a primitive root; to be heavy, i.e. in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable; causatively, to make weighty (in the same two senses)
KJV usage: abounding with, more grievously afflict, boast, be chargeable, X be dim, glorify, be (make) glorious (things), glory, (very) great, be grievous, harden, be (make) heavy, be heavier, lay heavily, (bring to, come to, do, get, be had in) honour (self), (be) honourable (man), lade, X more be laid, make self many, nobles, prevail, promote (to honour), be rich, be (go) sore, stop.
Pronounce: kaw-bad'
Origin: or kabed {kaw-bade'}
than my groaning
'anachah (Hebrew #585)
sighing
KJV usage: groaning, mourn, sigh.
Pronounce: an-aw-khaw'
Origin: from 585
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Psa. 77:2‑9• 2In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; my soul refused to be comforted.
 3I remembered God, and I moaned; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
 4Thou holdest open mine eyelids; I am full of disquiet and cannot speak.
 5I consider the days of old, the years of ancient times.
 6I remember my song in the night; I muse in mine own heart, and my spirit maketh diligent search.
 7Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
 8Hath his loving-kindness ceased for ever? hath his word come to an end from generation to generation?
 9Hath *God forgotten to be gracious? or hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. (Psa. 77:2‑9)
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hand.

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Ministry on This Verse

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my complaint.
Job 6:2• 2Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! (Job 6:2)
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Job 10:1• 1My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. (Job 10:1)
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Lam. 3:19‑20• 19Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
 20My soul hath them constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me. (Lam. 3:19‑20)
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Psa. 77:2‑9• 2In the day of my trouble, I sought the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; my soul refused to be comforted.
 3I remembered God, and I moaned; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
 4Thou holdest open mine eyelids; I am full of disquiet and cannot speak.
 5I consider the days of old, the years of ancient times.
 6I remember my song in the night; I muse in mine own heart, and my spirit maketh diligent search.
 7Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
 8Hath his loving-kindness ceased for ever? hath his word come to an end from generation to generation?
 9Hath *God forgotten to be gracious? or hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. (Psa. 77:2‑9)
stroke.
Heb. hand.
heavier.
Job 11:6• 6And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, how that they are the double of what is realised; and know that +God passeth by much of thine iniquity! (Job 11:6)
• “Even today” (after so much discussion and accusation by the friends) “my complaint still biddeth defiance” —so it has been rendered, rather than, “is bitter.” It is the bitterness of resistance against their charges, rather than the bitterness of grief. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)
• It is not, “My stroke is heavier than my groaning,” as in our version—he is not complaining of the bitter-ness of his suffering, but of its injustice. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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Perhaps "violent."