Job 23:2

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

“Also—today my complaint [is] bitter, || My hand has been heavy because of my sighing.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning.

GNV

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

JPS

Even to-day is my complaint bitter; my hand is become heavy because of my groaning.

LXXE

Yea, I know that pleading is out of my reach; and his hand has been made heavy upon my groaning.

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WLC

גַּם־הַ֭יּוֹם מְרִ֣י שִׂחִ֑י יָ֝דִ֗י כָּבְדָ֥ה עַל־אַנְחָתִֽי׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ δὴ οἶδα ὅτι ἐκ χειρός μου ἡ ἔλεγξίς ἐστι, καὶ ἡ χεὶρ αὐτοῦ βαρεῖα γέγονεν ἐπʼ ἐμῷ στεναγμῷ.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Psalms 32:4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
• Job 7:11Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
• Job 11:6and 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.
• Psalms 77:2–9In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted. I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah You…
• Job 6:2–3“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales. For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas— no wonder my words have been rash.
• Lamentations 3:19–20Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall. Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.

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