New King James Version
Job 16:6
6“Though I speak, my grief is not relieved; And if I remain silent, how am I eased?
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 Living Translation (NLT)Instead, I suffer if I defend myself, and I suffer no less if I refuse to speak.
Context of Job 16:6
4I also could speak as you do, If your soul were in my soul’s place. I could heap up words against you, And shake my head at you; 5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the comfort of my lips would relieve your grief. “Though I speak, my grief is not relieved; And if I remain silent, how am I eased? 7But now He has worn me out; You have made desolate all my company. 8You have shriveled me up, And it is a witness against me; My leanness rises up against me And bears witness to my face.
Read all of Job 16Job 16:6 word by word
אִֽם־אֲ֭דַבְּרָה לֹא־יֵחָשֵׂ֣ךְ כְּאֵבִ֑י וְ֝אַחְדְּלָ֗ה מַה־מִנִּ֥י יַהֲלֹֽךְ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 16:6
- Job 10:1“My soul loathes my life; I will give free course to my complaint, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Psalms 77:1I cried out to God with my voice— To God with my voice; And He gave ear to me.
- Psalms 88:15I have been afflicted and ready to die from my youth; I suffer Your terrors; I am distraught.
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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