Job 16:6
For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: 1 And if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less? 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
In Context
5And would there were strength in my mouth, 1 And I would not spare the movement of my lips. 1
7But now he has made me weary, and a worn-out fool; 1 And thou hast laid hold of me. 1
Cross References
Job 10:1Weary in my soul, 1 I will pour my words with groans upon him: 1 I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul. 1
Psalms 88:15Justice and judgment are the establishment of thy throne: 1 Mercy and truth shall go before thy face. 1
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 →