Job 16:6
If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
In Context
5I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.
7But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
Cross References
Job 10:1My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.
Psalms 88:15\88:14\Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?
Matthew Henry on Job 16:2-6
The Reply of Job to Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. 5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief. Both Job and his friends took the same way that disputants commonly… Read the whole commentary →