6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
6 "Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.
6 "If I speak, my pain is not assuaged, and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
6 "When I speak up, I feel no better; if I say nothing, that doesn't help either.
6 "Though I speak, my grief is not relieved; And if I remain silent, how am I eased?
6 Instead, I suffer if I defend myself, and I suffer no less if I refuse to speak.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 16:6
Commentary on Job 16:6-16
(Read Job 16:6-16)
Here is a doleful representation of Job's grievances. What reason we have to bless God, that we are not making such complaints! Even good men, when in great troubles, have much ado not to entertain hard thoughts of God. Eliphaz had represented Job as unhumbled under his affliction: No, says Job, I know better things; the dust is now the fittest place for me. In this he reminds us of Christ, who was a man of sorrows, and pronounced those blessed that mourn, for they shall be comforted.