Job 16:6
If I speak, my grief is not lessened; 1 if I keep from speaking, how am I helped? 1
Unlocked Literal 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, 1 and the quivering of my lips will bring you relief! 1
7But now, God, you have made me weary; 1 you have made all my family desolate. 1
Cross References
Job 10:1I am weary of my life; 1 I will give free expression to my complaint; 1 I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. 1
Psalms 88:15I have always been afflicted and on the verge of death since my youth. 1 I have suffered from your terrors; I am in despair. 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 →