Job 16:6

Job 16:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
• New International Version (NIV)“Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Though I speak, my grief is not relieved; And if I remain silent, how am I eased?

Context of Job 16:6

4If you were suffering like I am, I could say the same things to you. I could speak for a long time about the wrong things that you have done. I could shake my head and laugh at you. 5But, instead, I would help you to be strong. I would say things to comfort you. But now, if I speak, my pain does not become any better. If I stop speaking, my pain continues to be there. 7God, you have made me very weak. You have destroyed my family. 8You have taken hold of me. Because of my troubles, people think that I am guilty. Because my body is so thin, people think that I have done bad things.

Job 16:6 word by word

אִֽם־אֲ֭דַבְּרָה לֹא־יֵחָשֵׂ֣ךְ כְּאֵבִ֑י וְ֝אַחְדְּלָ֗ה מַה־מִנִּ֥י יַהֲלֹֽךְ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Though I speakדָבַרdâbar · to speak: speakH1696
• my griefכְּאֵבke'êb · painH3511
• is not asswagedחָשַׂךְchâώak · to withholdH2820
• I forbearחָדַלchâdal · to ceaseH2308
• what am I easedהָלַךְhâlak · to go: wentH1980

Cross-references for Job 16:6

• Job 10:1I do not want to live any longer. I must continue to complain. I am very upset and I have to speak about it.
• Psalms 77:1I will call out to God for help. I will call aloud to God, and he will listen to me.
• Psalms 88:15Since I was young, I have been in pain. I have always been near to death. You have caused bad troubles to frighten me, so that I feel helpless.

Commentaries on Job 16:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Though I speak - But it will be of no avail thus to speak; for reprehensions of your conduct will not serve to mitigate my sufferings.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged - “But for me, it makes now no difference whether I speak or am silent. My sufferings continue. If I attempt to vindicate myself before people, I am reproached; and equally so if I am silent. If I maintain my cause before God, it avails me nothing, for my sufferings continue. If I am silent, and submit without a complaint, they are the same. Neither silence, nor argument, nor entreaty, avail me before God or man. I…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-16Verses 6-16 Here is a doleful representation of Job's grievances. What reason we have to bless God, that we are not making such complaints! Even good men, when in great troubles, have much ado not to entertain hard thoughts of God. Eliphaz had represented Job as unhumbled under his affliction: No, says Job, I know better things; the dust is now the fittest place for me. In this he reminds us of Christ, who was a man of sorrows, and pronounced those…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. eased--literally, "What (portion of my sufferings) goes from me?"Read the comment

Topics related to Job 16:6

• Afflictions and Adversities

In the dictionaries

• Comforter
• Foul
• Plead
• Scorn
• Assuage
• Bildad

Commentaries on Job 16

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary