Job 16:6
Though I do speak, unassuaged is my stinging pain,—And, if I forbear, of what am I relieved?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
In Context
5I could make you determined, by my mouth, and then my lip-solace should restrain you.
7But, now, hath he wearied me, thou hast destroyed all my family;
Cross References
Job 10:1My soul doth loathe my life,—I let loose my complaint, I speak, in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 88:15Afflicted have I been, and dying, from youth, I have borne the terror of thee—I shall be 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 →