God’s Word Translation
Job 16:6
6If I speak, my pain is not eased. If I stop talking, how much of it will go away?
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
4I, too, could speak like you if we could trade places. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you. 5I could encourage you with my mouth, and my quivering lips could ease ⌞your pain⌟. If I speak, my pain is not eased. If I stop talking, how much of it will go away? 7“But now, God has worn me out. You, ⌞God,⌟ have destroyed everyone who supports me. 8You have shriveled me up, which itself is a witness ⌞against me⌟. My frail body rises up and testifies against me.
Read all of Job 16Job 16:6 word by word
אִֽם־אֲ֭דַבְּרָה לֹא־יֵחָשֵׂ֣ךְ כְּאֵבִ֑י וְ֝אַחְדְּלָ֗ה מַה־מִנִּ֥י יַהֲלֹֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 16:6
- Job 10:1“I hate my life. I will freely express my complaint. I will speak as bitterly as I feel.
- Psalms 77:1Loudly, I cried to God. Loudly, I cried to God so that he would open his ears to ⌞hear⌟ me.
- Psalms 88:15Ever since I was young, I have been suffering and near death. I have endured your terrors, and now I am in despair.
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
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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
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