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.


In Context

3 Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak?

4 I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul. I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.

5 I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.

6 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.

7 But now my sorrow hath oppressed me, and all my limbs are brought to nothing.

8 My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a false speaker riseth up against my face, contradicting me.

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 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:6If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if 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?