Job 16:6
If I speak, my pain is not restrained, || And I cease—what goes from me?
Literal Standard 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 might harden you with my mouth, || And the moving of my lips might be sparing.
7Only, now, it has wearied me; You have desolated all my company,
Cross References
Job 10:1“My soul has been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 88:15I [am] afflicted, and expiring from youth, || I have borne Your terrors—I pine away.
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 →