Job 16:6
If I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And if I forbear, it doth not leave me.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
In Context
5I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the consolation of my lips should sustain you.
7For now He hath quite exhausted me; Thou hast desolated all my house!
Cross References
Job 10:1I am weary of my life; I will let loose within me my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 88:15I have been afflicted and languishing from my youth; I suffer thy terrors, and 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 →