Job 16:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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

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

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

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