Job 16:6
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New International Version (©1984)
"Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Instead, I suffer if I defend myself, and I suffer no less if I refuse to speak.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
If I speak, my pain is not eased. If I stop talking, how much of it will go away?

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

American King James Version
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

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

Bible in Basic English
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?

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?

English Revised Version
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

Webster's Bible Translation
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?

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

Geneva Study Bible

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

(f) If you would say, Why do you not then comfort yourself? he answers that the judgments of God are more heavy than he is able to assuage either by words or silence.

King James Translators' Notes

what...: Heb. what goeth from me?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

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

Matthew Henry's Concise 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.


Job 9:27 "Though I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my sad countenance and be cheerful,'
Job 9:28 I am afraid of all my pains, I know that You will not acquit me. (NASB ©1995)

Assuaged Cease Eased Forbear Goes Grief Hold Mind Pain Quiet Refrain Relieved Restrained Speak Subsided


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

my grief 10:1 Ps 77:1-9 88:15-18

what am I eased. Heb. what goeth from me

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