Job 16:6 "Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.

◄ Job 16:6 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
"Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.

English Standard Version
“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

New American Standard Bible
"If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me?

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved, and if I hold back, what have I lost?

International Standard Version
"But if I speak, my pain isn't assuaged; if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?"

American Standard Version
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?

Douay-Rheims Bible
But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.

Darby Bible Translation
If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?

Young's Literal Translation
If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me?

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

16:6-16 Here is a doleful representation of Job's grievances. What reason we have to bless God, that we are not making such complaints! Even good men, when in great troubles, have much ado not to entertain hard thoughts of God. Eliphaz had represented Job as unhumbled under his affliction: No, says Job, I know better things; the dust is now the fittest place for me. In this he reminds us of Christ, who was a man of sorrows, and pronounced those blessed that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6. eased—literally, "What (portion of my sufferings) goes from me?"