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Job 16:6

GriefDiscouragement and depression

4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

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

7 But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

8 And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

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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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