Bible verse
Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
Job 16:6 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 16.
2 “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
3 Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
4 I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
5 But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
6 Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
7 Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
8 You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
9 His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
10 They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
KJV
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased?
ASV
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?
ERV
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
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