his word was - or literally, “there was in my heart, as it were, a burning fire,” that is, the divine afflatus or impulse to speak was as ... (Job 32:18, Job 32:19; Psa 39:3).
weary with forbearing, and I could not - “I labored to contain myself, but I could not” (Act 18:5; compare Jer 23:9; 1Co 9:16, 1Co 9:17).