Job 7:11
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Wherefore, I will not spare my mouth, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.

I will not.

Job 6:26 You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the wind.

Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 13:13 Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.

Job 16:6 I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.

Job 21:3 Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.

Psalm 39:3 My heart grew hot within me: and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.

Psalm 40:9 I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it.

the anguish.

Genesis 42:21 And they talked one to another: We deserve to suffer these things, because we have sinned against our brother, seeing the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear: therefore is this affliction come upon us.

2 Kings 4:27,28 And when she came to the man of God, to the mount, she caught hold on his feet: and Giezi came to remove her. And the man of God said: Let her alone for her soul is in anguish, and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me. . . .

Matthew 26:37,38 And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to grow sorrowful and to be sad. . . .

Luke 22:44 And his sweat became as drops of blood, trickling down upon the ground.

2 Corinthians 2:4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you should be made sorrowful: but that you might know the charity I have more abundantly towards you.

the bitterness.

Job 10:15 And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.

Job 21:25 But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:

1 Samuel 1:10 As Anna had her heart full of grief, she prayed to the Lord, shedding many tears,

Isaiah 38:15,17 What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he himself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of my soul. . . .

Context
Job Continues: Life Seems Futile
10Nor shall he return any more into his house, neither shall his place know him any more 11Wherefore, I will not spare my mouth, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul.12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison?…
Cross References
Job 9:27
If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.

Job 10:1
My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 21:4
Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?

Job 23:2
Now also my words are in bitterness, and the hand of my scourge is more grievous than my mourning.

Psalm 40:9
I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it.

Isaiah 38:15
What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he himself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

Lexicon
Therefore
גַּם־ (gam-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

I
אֲנִי֮ (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 589: I

will not
לֹ֤א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

restrain
אֶחֱשָׂ֫ךְ (’e·ḥĕ·śāḵ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 2820: To restrain, refrain, to refuse, spare, preserve, to observe

my mouth;
פִּ֥י (pî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to

I will speak
אֲ‍ֽ֭דַבְּרָה (’ăḏab·bə·rāh)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

in the anguish
בְּצַ֣ר (bə·ṣar)
Preposition-b | Adjective - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6862: Narrow, a tight place, a pebble, an opponent

of my spirit;
רוּחִ֑י (rū·ḥî)
Noun - common singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit

I will complain
אָ֝שִׂ֗יחָה (’ā·śî·ḥāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7878: To muse, complain, talk (of)

in the bitterness
בְּמַ֣ר (bə·mar)
Preposition-b | Adjective - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4751: Bitter, bitterness, bitterly

of my soul.
נַפְשִֽׁי׃ (nap̄·šî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion


Additional Translations
Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.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.

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.

Then neither will I refrain my mouth: I will speak being in distress; being in anguish I will disclose the bitterness of my soul.

Therefore I will not restrain my mouth: I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

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.

Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

"Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Also I -- I withhold not my mouth -- I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.
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