If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
Job 9:27 stands in the second of the four parts of the book of Job, the debate between Job and his three friends over his afflictions in chapters 4 to 31. That debate is made up of three circles of speeches by each disputant. That part of the book addresses overruling providence, sin, and suffering. In it God is disciplining Job and bringing him through the fire of affliction.
In this debate Job presents his afflictions as no proof that he has sinned. His three friends charge him with sin and declare that his sufferings are because of sin. The verse expresses Job's wish to put aside his complaint and grief and comfort himself. He so wishes though he cannot understand God's dealings while knowing he is upright. His friends' counsel rested on their own wisdom and observation. Their claims about God's justice, though generally true, were misapplied to Job's suffering.
Job 9:27 stands in the second of the four parts of the book of Job, the debate between Job and his three friends over his afflictions in chapters 4 to 31. That debate is made up of three circles of speeches by each disputant. That part of the book addresses overruling providence, sin, and suffering. In it God is disciplining Job and bringing him through the fire of affliction.
In this debate Job presents his afflictions as no proof that he has sinned. His three friends charge him with sin and declare that his sufferings are because of sin. The verse expresses Job's wish to put aside his complaint and grief and comfort himself. He so wishes though he cannot understand God's dealings while knowing he is upright. His friends' counsel rested on their own wisdom and observation. Their claims about God's justice, though generally true, were misapplied to Job's suffering.