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Job 16:6

Job 16:6 is verse 6 of Job chapter 16, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

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

“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

Job 16:4–8 · Berean Standard Bible

4 I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

5 But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

6 Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?

7 Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

8 You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.

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Job 10:1
“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Psalms 77:1
I cried out to God; I cried aloud to God to hear me.

Psalms 77:2
In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.

Psalms 77:3
I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah

Psalms 77:4
You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.

Psalms 77:5
I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.

Psalms 77:6
At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:

Psalms 77:7
“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?

Psalms 77:8
Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time?

Psalms 77:9
Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah

Psalms 88:15
From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.

Psalms 88:16
Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.

Psalms 88:17
All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.

Psalms 88:18
You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.