Job 16:6
Though I were to speak, my pain would not be restrained; and though I should forbear, what will go away from me?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
In Context
7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
Cross References
Job 10:1My soul is disgusted with my life; I will give free vent to my complaint over myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 88:15(88:16) I am afflicted and perishing from my youth up: I bear thy terrors, 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 →