Job 16:6
If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
In Context
5[But] I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage [your pain].
7But now he hath made me weary; thou hast made desolate all my family;
Cross References
Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and expiring from my youth up; I suffer thy terrors, [and] I am distracted.
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 →