Job 16:6
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I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.

my grief

Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Psalm 77:1-9 Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of Asaph. [2] I cried to the Lord with my voice; to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me. . . .

Psalm 88:15-18 I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled. . . .

what am I eased.

Context
Job Decries his Comforters
5I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you. 6I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.7But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.…
Cross References
Job 9:27
If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.

Job 9:28
I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.

Job 16:5
I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.

Lexicon
Even if
אִֽם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

I speak,
אֲ֭דַבְּרָה (’ă·ḏab·bə·rāh)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

my pain
כְּאֵבִ֑י (kə·’ê·ḇî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3511: Suffering, adversity

is not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

relieved,
יֵחָשֵׂ֣ךְ (yê·ḥā·śêḵ)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2820: To restrain, refrain, to refuse, spare, preserve, to observe

and if I hold back,
וְ֝אַחְדְּלָ֗ה (wə·’aḥ·də·lāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 2308: To be flabby, desist, be lacking, idle

how
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

will it go away?
יַהֲלֹֽךְ׃ (ya·hă·lōḵ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1980: To go, come, walk


Additional Translations
Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?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?

And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips.

If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if 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 assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me?
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