Job 16:6

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.

Related Commentaries of 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 att...
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?"...
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...
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 rep...
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 'comfor...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Though I speak... — “I cannot but reply, though to reply gives me no relief.”
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...
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...
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 sen...
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...
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;...
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 sp...
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 hi...
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,...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Grievances of Job. B. C. 1520. 6 Tho...
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...
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 fro...
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 . S...
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 t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Complains of the Unmerciful Attitude of his Friends
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged, if he gives vent to his misery, it does him no good, namely, with such poor comforters at hand; and though...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

⁶ Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

Related Commentaries of Job 16:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 16:6