Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me?
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?
Interlinear
Dabar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 16:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fifth Speech
5 I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing. 6 If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me? 7 Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,
Cross References
Job 10:1
My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalm 77:1-9
To the Overseer, for Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of Asaph. My voice is to God, and I cry, my voice is to God, And He hath given ear unto me.
Psalm 88:15-18
I am afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors -- I pine away.