Job 16:6
For me, if I speak it doesn't ease my pain, and if I don't speak the pain is still there.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
In Context
5I could build you up by my mouth speaking words; the movement of my lips would ease your pain.
7God, you have worn me out. You have destroyed my whole family.
Cross References
Job 10:1I hate my life! Let me speak freely about my complaints—I can't keep my bitterness to myself.
Psalms 88:15I have been sick since I was young, often at death's door. I have had to bear the terrible things you've done to me. I'm 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 →