◄ Job 16:6 ►
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Good News Translation
But nothing I say helps, and being silent does not calm my pain.

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

Contemporary English Version
If I speak, or if I don't, I hurt all the same. My torment continues.

New American Bible
If I speak, my pain is not relieved; if I stop speaking, nothing changes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

my grief

Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Psalm 77:1-9 Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of Asaph. [2] I cried to the Lord with my voice; to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me. . . .

Psalm 88:15-18 I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled. . . .

what am I eased.

Context
Job Decries his Comforters
…5I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you. 6I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.7But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.…
Cross References
Job 9:27
If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.

Job 9:28
I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.

Job 16:5
I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.

Job 16:5
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