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, and aggravated it by contrasting therewith his resolutions to have acted in a more friendly manner toward them, if they had been in his case; now returns to his main business, namely, to describe his miseries, in order that, if possible, he might move his friends to pity and comfort him. Though I forbear, what am I eased? What portion of my grief departs from me? I receive not one grain of ease or comfort. Neither speech nor silence does me any good.