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Job 9:27

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If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
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  1. Job 7:13Rank 1 from verse 27
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    13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

  2. Jeremiah 8:18Rank 2 from verse 27
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    18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

  3. Job 7:11Rank 3 from verse 27
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    11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  4. Psalms 77:2–3Rank 4 from verse 27
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    2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

    3I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

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Job 9:27

COMBINED MEANING

say

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Sense 1: To speak, declare, tell, or express. Sense 2: What is said.

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COMBINED MEANING

forget

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To fail or cease to remember; to lose from mind; to neglect or disregard.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

complaint

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An expression or utterance of grief, pain, trouble, or heaviness; a lament.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

leave

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1. To depart, cease from, abandon, forsake, release, permit, entrust, bequeath, cause or allow to remain, omit, exclude, or not take. 2. As a noun, permission or liberty to act, including permission to depart.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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comfort

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Sense 1: Strength, relief, encouragement, or consolation in distress. Sense 2: To strengthen, encourage, or console.

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26They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

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28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

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