Job 16:6
4 I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
5 But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
7 Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
8 You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
- KJV
- Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
- 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?
- DARBY
- If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?
- BLB
- If I speak, my sorrow is not relieved; and [if] I cease, how will it go from me?
- ÅB
- Om jeg taler, stilles ikke min smerte, og lar jeg det være, hva lindring får jeg da?
- OTB
- "Hvis jeg taler, blir ikke min lidelse lettet,
og hvis jeg forblir stille, forlater den meg ikke. - B1930
- Om jeg taler, stilles ikke min smerte, og lar jeg det være, hvad lindring får jeg da?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 10:1
“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Read in contextPsalms 88:15–18
From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
Read in contextPsalms 77:1–9
I cried out to God; I cried aloud to God to hear me.
Read in context