Job 16:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ “If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I refrain, how much of it leaves me?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ If I speak [to you miserable comforters], my sorrow is not soothed or lessened; and if I refrain [from speaking], in what way am I eased? [I hardly know whether to answer you or be silent.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁶ If I speak, my pain is not eased; if I hold back, what have I lost?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as if being lenient to you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.

Job 16:6 Cross References

Job 10:1

“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 16:5

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

Job 9:27

If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint; I will put off my sad countenance and be of good cheer,’

Job 9:28

I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.