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Job 16:6 KJV
Job · chapter 16 · verse 6
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?Job 16:6 · King James Version
Job 16:6 in context
4I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- asswagedchâsakto restrain or refrainH2820 →
- forbearchâdalproperly, to be flabbyH2308 →
- speakdâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- griefkᵉʼêbsuffering , adversityH3511 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 6-16