Job 16:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 16:6 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 10:1
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 88:15-18
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. …
Psalms 77:1-9
To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-16)

Job’s complaint is here as bitter as any where in all his discourses, and he is at a stand whether to smother it or to give it vent. Sometimes the one and sometimes the other is a relief to the afflicted, according as the temper or the circumstances are; but Job found help by neither, Job 16:6. 1. Sometimes giving vent to grief gives ease; but, “ Though I speak ” (says Job), “ my grief is not assu…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. eased--literally, “What (portion of my sufferings) goes from me?”