Charles Spurgeon Commentary Job 23:1-2

"Then Job answered and said, Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning." — Job 23:1-2 (ASV)

Then Job answered and said, Even today is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning (Job 23:1–2).

"Although my groaning is heavy, yet it is not so burdensome as my griefs might warrant."

Then Job answered and said, Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

He could not express all his pain. He felt that he did not complain too much. His stroke was heavier than his groaning. His words had bitterness in them; but he thought that they were justified by his affliction.

Then Job answered and said, Even today is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

Job admitted that he groaned, but he claimed that he had good reason for doing so; that, indeed, the source of his grief was greater than the streams of his grief, so that he could not, even with his groans and tears, express half the anguish that he felt.