Job 16:6
Though I speake, my sorow can not be asswaged: though I cease, what release haue I?
Geneva Bible 1599
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 woulde strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips should asswage your sorowe.
7But now hee maketh mee wearie: O God, thou hast made all my congregation desolate,
Cross References
Job 10:1My soule is cut off though I liue: I wil leaue my complaint vpon my selfe, and wil speake in the bitternesse of my soule.
Psalms 88:15I am afflicted and at the point of death: from my youth I suffer thy terrours, doubting of my life.
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 →