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Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Job 16:6

my grief i. e. my pain; see on ch. Job 2:13.

what am I eased lit. as margin, what(of my pain or trouble) goeth from me?

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See also Job 16:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 16:6. _THOUGH I SPEAK_] But it will be of no avail thus to speak; for reprehensions of _your_ conduct will not serve to mitigate _my_ sufferings....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 reproached...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 16-17 JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ _ 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1)_ 2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6) 3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15) 4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pit...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 16:6 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, correct. Wit...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. Though innocent, he suffers the hostility of God and man. (Job 16:6-17) TEXT 16:6-17 6 THOUGH I SPEAK, MY GRIEF IS NOT ASSUAGED; And though I forbear, what am I eased? 7 But now he hath made me...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job’s friends wanted to help him. They tried to teach him about God. They tried to show Job his errors. And they wanted to encourage him. But their words did not help Job. They never understood the r...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 16 JOB REPLIES TO ELIPHAZ’S...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THOUGH I SPEAK... — “I cannot but reply, though to reply gives me no relief.”...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אִֽם ־אֲ֭דַבְּרָה לֹא ־יֵחָשֵׂ֣ךְ כְּאֵבִ֑י וְ֝...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    TURNING FROM “MISERABLE COMFORTERS” UNTO GOD Job 16:1 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 in his,...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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 heav...

  • 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 mine...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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 so...

  • 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 mine...

  • 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, an...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB COMPLAINS OF THE UNMERCIFUL ATTITUDE OF HIS FRIENDS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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 I FORBEAR, WHAT AM I EASED? If he desists from spea...

  • Leslie 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 of...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    WHAT AM I EASED? _HEB._WHAT GOETH FROM ME?...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    But speaking does not help. "Whether he spoke up or not, his pain lingered on" _(Bible Knowledge Comm. p. 738)._ Not only was Job not helped by his three comforters, he could not even help himself. No...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 entert...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The 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 de...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 16:6 speak H1696 (H8762) grief H3511 relieved H2820 (H8735) silent H2308 (H8799) eased H1980 ...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job charges that Eliphaz is but heaping up words. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: It is a great comfort to a good man who lies under the censures of brethren who do not un...

  • 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 Eliphaz...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 16:1 Job responds again. He begins by pointing out that his friends have failed as comforters (Job 16:2), even though comfort was their original purpose for coming to him (see...

  • The 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). 1. _They gave him only verses from the ancients about the punishment of the wicked and the...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 despairing...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So Job answered and said, I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all. Shall empty words (Job 16:1) Talking about vanity, he said, Shall empty words have an end? or what emboldens...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Job 10:1; Psalms 77:1; Psalms 88:15...

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