6If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?


In Context

3 Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

4 I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;

5 But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage your pain.

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

7 But now he hath made me weary; ... thou hast made desolate all my family;

8 Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.

Job 16:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

16:6But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

16:6Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

16:6Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:6Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:6|Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

16:6If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease — what goeth from me?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:6Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?