Job 16:6
“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
World English Bible Catholic
In The King James Version
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
In Context
5but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
7But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.
Cross References
Job 10:1“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your 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 →