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

4I too could speak like you, If I were in your place. I could compose words against you And shake my head at you. 5I could strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain. “If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me? 7But now He has exhausted me; You have laid waste all my company. 8You have shriveled me up, It has become a witness; And my leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.

Job 16:6 word by word

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

• Ifאִם'im · ifH518
• I speakדָבַרdâbar · to speak: speakH1696
• my painכְּאֵבke'êb · painH3511
• is not lessenedחָשַׂךְchâώak · to withholdH2820
• And if I holdחָדַלchâdal · to ceaseH2308
• whatמָהmâh mah mâ ma meh · what?H4100
• has leftהָלַךְhâlak · to go: wentH1980

Cross-references for Job 16:6

• Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will give full vent to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
• Psalms 77:1My voice rises to God, and I will cry aloud; My voice rises to God, and He will hear me.
• Psalms 88:15I was afflicted and about to die from my youth on; I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.

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