Job 16:6

Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

Berean Standard Bible
Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Though I speake, my sorow can not be asswaged: though I cease, what release haue I?

Darby Translation

If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?

Young's Literal Translation

If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease — what goeth from me?

Bible in Basic English

If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?

In context

5But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

7Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

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