John Trapp on Job 9:27

Verſe 27. If I ſay, I will forget my complaint,] And ſuffer in ſilence, as thou Bildad haſt adviſed me, chap. 8.2. Sorrows are not ſo eaſily forgotten, Lam. 3.19. remembring mine affliction and my miſery, the wormwood and the gall. The Stoicks boaſting of their indolency, or ability to bear afflictions, without making moane, or complaining, when it came to their own turn, found by experience that they had ſpoken more trimly then truely; and therefore one Dionyſius, ſirnamed [non-Latin text not transcribed], or the Flincher, fell off (for this reaſon) from the Stoicks to the Peripateticks.

I will leave off my heavineſſe] Heb. my face, viz. the ſowrneſſe that uſed to ſit upon it, as 1 Sam. 1.18. The Phariſees were vultuoſi tetrici inamoeni, Matth 6.16. of a ſad and ſowre countenance, grim, and ghaſtly: they affected to look like Scythians, as the word ſignifieth, that they might ſeem great faſters, when as inwardly they were merry and pleaſant. Jobs caſe was far different: his heart was heavy as lead; nevertheleſſe, to give content to his friends, he would endeavour to look lightſomely, but found a very hard task of it.

And comfort my ſelf] Heb. ſtrengthen, viz. ſo as not to make moane, but bite in my pain. Invalidumomne naturâ querulum, the weaker any thing is, the more apt it is to complaine; and on the contrary, ſome mens fleſh will preſently rankle and feſter, if but razed with a pin onely: ſo ſome mens ſpirits, they are ever whining.