6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. …
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. …
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…
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