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


In Context

3 Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?

4 I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.

5 But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

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

7 Surely, O God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.

8 You have bound me-and it has become a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against 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 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 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?