Job 16:6 · KJV
“Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and {though} I forbear, what am I eased? {what...: Heb. what goeth from me?}”
— Job 16:6
{But} I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage {your grief}.
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
Job 16 — Context
I 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.
5{But} 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? {what...: Heb. what goeth from me?}
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.
Cross References
Job 10:1
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. {weary...: or, cut off while I live}
Psalms 88:15-18
I {am} afflicted and ready to die from {my} youth up: {while} I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Psalms 77:1-9
[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. {of: or, for}