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Job 16:6
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If I speak, my suffering is not relieved,and if I hold back, does any of it leave me?
"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
"If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
"Even if I speak, my pain is not less, and if I don't speak, it still does not go away.
"But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking —how much of it goes away?
"If I speak [to you miserable comforters], my pain is not relieved; And if I refrain [from speaking], what [pain or anguish] leaves me?
"If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I refrain, what pain leaves me?
"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
Though I speake, my sorow can not be asswaged: though I cease, what release haue I?
"If I speak, my pain is not lessened,And if I cease, what will go forth from me?
Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
If I speak, my own pain isn't eased; and if I don't speak, it still doesn't leave.
If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?
"Nothing I say makes my pain go away. But keeping quiet does not help either.
If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, who can comfort me?
But nothing I say helps, and being silent does not calm my pain.
If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I cease, how much will leave me?
If I speak, my pain is not held back; and though I forbear, what goes from me?
But what shall I do? For all my wordes, my sorow wil not ceasse: and though I holde my toge, yet wil it not departe fro me.
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?
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?
Though I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and though I forbear, what am I eased?
Though I speake, my griefe is not asswaged: and though I forbeare; what am I eased?
For all my wordes my sorowe wyll not ceasse: And though I holde my tongue, what am I eased?
And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips.
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
But what schal Y do? If Y speke, my sorewe restith not; and if Y am stille, it goith not awei fro me.
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased?
"Though I speak, my grief is not relieved; And if I remain silent, how am I eased?
Instead, I suffer if I defend myself, and I suffer no less if I refuse to speak.
"If I speak, my pain is not made less. And if I keep quiet, it does not leave me.
"If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
Though I do speak, unassuaged is my stinging pain, - And, if I forbear, of what am I relieved?
(16-7) But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.
"If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me?
"When I speak up, I feel no better; if I say nothing, that doesn't help either. I feel worn down. God, you have wasted me totally—me and my family! You've shriveled me like a dried prune, showing the world that you're against me. My gaunt face stares back at me from the mirror, a mute witness to your treatment of me. Your anger tears at me, your teeth rip me to shreds, your eyes burn holes in me—God, my enemy! People take one look at me and gasp. Contemptuous, they slap me around and gang up against me. And God just stands there and lets them do it, lets wicked people do what they want with me. I was contentedly minding my business when God beat me up. He grabbed me by the neck and threw me around. He set me up as his target, then rounded up archers to shoot at me. Merciless, they shot me full of arrows; bitter bile poured from my gut to the ground. He burst in on me, onslaught after onslaught, charging me like a mad bull.
"If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
my grief: Job 10:1, Psalms 77:1-9, Psalms 88:15-18
what am I eased: Heb. what goeth from me
Reciprocal: Job 7:11 - I will not
Cross-References
and asked, "Hagar, where have you come from, and where are you going?" She answered, "I'm running away from Sarai, my owner."
The angel said, "Go back to Sarai and be her slave.
Soon after that, the servant loaded ten of Abraham's camels with valuable gifts. Then he set out for the city in northern Syria, where Abraham's brother Nahor lived.
When the king heard what Moses had done, the king wanted to kill him. But Moses escaped and went to the land of Midian. One day, Moses was sitting there by a well,
"All right!" the Lord replied. "Make Job suffer as much as you want, but just don't kill him."
It's smart to be patient, but it's stupid to lose your temper.
A kind answer soothes angry feelings, but harsh words stir them up.
When you are far from home, you feel like a bird without a nest.
Even when servants are smart, it takes more than words to make them obey.
Don't give up your job when your boss gets angry. If you stay calm, you'll be forgiven.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged,.... Though he spoke to God in prayer, and entreated for some abatement of his sorrows, he got no relief; and though he spoke to himself in soliloquies, his sorrow was not repressed nor lessened; he could not administer comfort to himself in the present case, though he might to others in like circumstances, if his own were changed;
and [though] I forbear speaking, hold my peace, and say nothing,
what am I eased? or "what goes from me" t? not anything of my trouble or grief; sometimes a man speaking of his troubles to his friends gives vent to his grief, and he is somewhat eased; and on the other hand being silent about it, he forgets it, and it goes off; but in neither of those ways could Job be released: or it may be his sense is, that when he spake of his affliction, and attempted to vindicate his character, he was represented as an impatient and passionate man, if not as blasphemous, so that his grief was rather increased than assuaged; and if he was silent, that was interpreted a consciousness of his guilt; so that, let him take what course he would, it was much the same, he could get no ease nor comfort.
t מה מני יחלך "quid a me abit", Junius & Tremellius, Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Though 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 am doomed to suffering.”
What am I eased? - Margin. “Goeth from me.” Literally, “what goeth from me?” The sense is, that it all availed nothing.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 16:6. 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.
