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.

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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?

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