Job 16:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? ”

• Job 16:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged - “ But for me, it makes now no difference whether I speak or am silent. My sufferings continue. If I attempt to vindicate myself before people, I am repro...

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• Job 16:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Though I speak, my grief is (f) not asswaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased? (f) If you would say, "Why do you not then comfort yourself?" he answers that the judgments of God are more hea...

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• Job 16:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 16:6-17 contain a bitter complaint of God's ferocity against Job, in spite of his innocence. The connexion of Job 16:6 with the context is not clear: RV translation is probably, however, co...

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• Job 16:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? Though I speak - But it will be of no avail thus to speak; for reprehensions of your conduct will not serve to mitig...

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• Job 16:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased? Eased - Literally, What portion of my sufferings goes from me?-not the smallest portion.

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• Job 16:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Fourth Speech ( Job 16:17 ) See introductory remarks on Job 15-21. 1-5. Job retorts scornfully that he too could offer such empty 'comfort' if he were in the friends' place.

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• Job 16:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Though I speak... — “I cannot but reply, though to reply gives me no relief.”

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• Job 16:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again i...

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• Job 16:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Turning from “Miserable Comforters” unto God Job 16:1-22 With bitterness the sufferer turns from his comforters to God. As the r.v. makes clear, he says that if he were in their place and they...

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• Job 16:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Job immediately answered. His answer dealt less with the argument they suggested than before. While the darkness was still about him, and in some senses the agony of his soul was deepening, yet it is...

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• Job 16:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (3) Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? (4) 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 min...

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• Job 16:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged ,.... Though he spoke to God in prayer, and entreated for some abatement of his sorrows, he got no relief; and though he spoke to himself in soliloquies, his...

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• Job 16:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased? Ver. 6. Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged ] Heb. If I speak; sc. to bewail my misery, or to maintain min...

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• Job 16:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Though I speak To God by prayer, or to you in the way of discourse; my grief is not assuaged I find no relief or comfort. Job, having reproved his friends for their unkind behaviour toward him, a...

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• Job 16:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOB REPROVES THEIR HEARTLESSNESS (vv.1-5) Eliphaz had claimed to be giving Job "the consolations of God," and this moves Job to reply bitterly, "Miserable comforters are you all!" (v.2). Instead...

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• Job 16:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Grievances of Job. B. C. 1520.       6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though...

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• Job 16:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Though I speak to God by prayer, or to you in way of discourse, I find no relief. Job having reproved his friends for their unkind carriage towards him, and aggravated it by his resolutions to have...

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• Job 16:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S SECOND REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Complains of the want of sympathy on the part of his friends ( Job 16:2-5 ). 1. They gave him only verses from the ancients about the punishment of the wicked...

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• Job 16:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 16:2 . Miserable comforters are ye all. The Vulgate, “burdensome comforters,” who afflicted instead of consoling their friend. Job 16:3 . Shall vain words have an end. He plainly tells Eli...

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• Job 16:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job answers the second speech of Eliphaz in a discourse which occupies two (short) chapters, and is thus not much more lengthy than the speech of his antagonist. His tone is very desp...

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• Job 16:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Complains of the Unmerciful Attitude of his Friends

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• Job 16:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 10:1 ; Psalms 77:1-9 ; Psalms 88:15-18

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