Job 16 · Verse 6

Job 16:6

Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

Job 16:6, King James Version

Job 16:6 in other translations

BSB	Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
WEB	“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
ASV	Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?
YLT	If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease--what goeth from me?
DARBY	If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?
BBE	If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?
Webster	Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

What does Job 16:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6. eased--literally, "What (portion of my sufferings) goes from me?"

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 6 Though I speak - But it will be of no avail thus to speak; for reprehensions of your conduct will not serve to mitigate my sufferings.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 16:6-16

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 blessed that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Job 16:6 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אִֽם\־'im-ifH518

אֲ֭דַבְּרָה'A.da.be.rahI will speakH1696

לֹא\־lo'-notH3808

יֵחָשֵׂ֣ךְye.cha.Sekhit will be restrainedH2820

כְּאֵבִ֑יke.'e.Vipain myH3511

וְ֝אַחְדְּלָ֗הve.'ach.de.Lahand I will ceaseH2308

מַה\־mah-what?H4100

מִנִּ֥יmi.Nifrom meH4480

יַהֲלֹֽךְ\׃ya.ha.Lokhwill it goH1980

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 16:6

Job 10:1
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 88:15-18
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off. They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together. Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Psalms 77:1-9
To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

my grief.
10:1; Ps 77:1-9; 88:15-18
what am I eased. Heb. what goeth from me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

Job 16:5
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
Job 16:6
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
Job 16:7
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

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Job 16:6 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Si hablo, mi dolor no cesa; y si dejo de hablar, no se aparta de mí.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Si je parle, ma douleur n’est pas allégée; et si je me tais, s’éloignera-t-elle de moi?
German Elberfelder 1871	Wenn ich rede, so wird mein Schmerz nicht gehemmt; und unterlasse ich es, nicht weicht er von mir.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	roborarem vos ore meo, et moverem labia mea, quasi parcens vobis.