The Book of Job, Chapter 9, Verse 27

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

King James Version

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

American Standard Version

If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer;

New English Translation

If I say,‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,’

World English Bible

If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'

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

[If] I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

For [he is] not a man, as I [am, that] I should answer him, [and] we should come together in judgment.

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, [that] might lay his hand upon us both.

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

[Then] would I speak, and not fear him; but [it is] not so with me.

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.