Job 16:6
Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
In Context
5But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
7Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
Cross References
Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 88:15From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
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 →