Job 16:7
But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
In Context
6I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.
8But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.
Cross References
Job 3:17There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.
Job 7:3So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights.
Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 6:6For there is no one in death, that is mindful of thee: and who shall confess to thee in hell?
Isaiah 50:4The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.
Matthew Henry on Job 16:7-17
Grievances of Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? 7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company. 8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face. 9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me. 10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the… Read the whole commentary →