Job 7:11

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

גַּם־אֲנִי֮ לֹ֤א אֶחֱשָׂ֫ךְ פִּ֥י אֲ‍ֽ֭דַבְּרָה בְּצַ֣ר רוּחִ֑י אָ֝שִׂ֗יחָה בְּמַ֣ר נַפְשִֽׁי

Transliteration

Also-I not 'eḥĕśāḵ my pî 'ăḏabbĕrâ in tsar my rûḥî 'āśîḥâ in mar my nafshî

Grammar Details

• *gam*: adverb - also/even
• *'ănî*: pronoun, 1st person singular - I
• *lō'*: negative particle - not
• *'eḥĕśāḵ*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will restrain
• *pî*: noun, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my mouth
• *'ăḏabbĕrâ*: verb, piel imperfect cohortative, 1st person singular - let me speak
• *bĕ*: preposition - in
• *tsar*: noun, masculine singular construct - distress of
• *rûḥî*: noun, feminine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my spirit
• *'āśîḥâ*: verb, qal imperfect cohortative, 1st person singular - let me complain
• *mar*: noun, masculine singular construct - bitterness of
• *nafshî*: noun, feminine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my soul

Word Meanings

• *'eḥĕśāḵ*: I will restrain/I will hold back/I will refrain
• *pî*: my mouth/my speech
• *'ăḏabbĕrâ*: let me speak/I will speak
• *tsar*: distress/anguish/trouble
• *rûḥî*: my spirit/my breath
• *'āśîḥâ*: let me complain/let me meditate/let me talk
• *mar*: bitterness/grief
• *nafshî*: my soul/my self/my life

Referenced Verses

• Ps 40:9 : 9 I have preached{H8765)} righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained{H8799)} my lips, O LORD, thou knowest{H8804)}.
• Job 10:1 : 1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• 1 Sam 1:10 : 10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the LORD, and wept sore.
• Job 21:25 : 25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
• Isa 38:15 : 15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
• Isa 38:17 : 17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
• Matt 26:37-38 : 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
• Luke 22:44 : 44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
• 2 Cor 2:4 : 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
• Gen 42:21 : 21 And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
• Ps 39:3 : 3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned{H8799)}: then spake{H8765)} I with my tongue,
• 2 Kgs 4:27-28 : 27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me. 28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?
• Job 6:26 : 26 Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
• Job 10:15 : 15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
• Job 13:13 : 13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
• Job 16:6 : 6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
• Job 21:3-4 : 3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?