Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
And if I hold back, what has left me?
King James Version
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
Holman Bible
and if I hold back, what have I lost?
International Standard Version
"But if I speak, my pain isn't assuaged; if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?"
A Conservative Version
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged, and 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?
Amplified
“If I speak [to you miserable comforters], my pain is not relieved;
And if I refrain [from speaking], what [pain or anguish] leaves 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?
Darby Translation
If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?
Julia Smith Translation
If I shall speak, my pain will not be held back, and shall I cease, what will go from me?
King James 2000
Though I speak, my grief is not relieved: and though I forbear, how am I eased?
Lexham Expanded Bible
If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and [if] I cease, how much will leave me?
Modern King James verseion
Though I speak, my pain is not held back, and though I forbear, in what way am I eased?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"But what shall I do? For all my words, my sorrow will not cease: and though I hold my tongue, yet will it not depart from me.
NET Bible
"But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking -- how much of it goes away?
New Heart English Bible
"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
The Emphasized Bible
Though I do speak, unassuaged is my stinging pain, - And, if I forbear, of what am I relieved?
Webster
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: 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?
Youngs Literal Translation
If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me?
Interlinear
Dabar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 16:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fifth Speech
5
And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.
And if I hold back, what has left me?
You have laid
Cross References
Job 10:1
I will give full vent to
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalm 77:1-9
For the choir director;
My voice rises to God, and I will
My voice rises to God, and He will hear me.
Psalm 88:15-18
I suffer