Job 16:6
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
American King James Version (AKJV)
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
American Standard Version (ASV)
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?
Basic English Translation (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's Revision
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
World English Bible
"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
English Revised Version (ERV)
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
Definitions for Job 16:6
Clarke's Job 16:6 Bible Commentary
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.
Barnes's Job 16:6 Bible Commentary
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.
