Job 16:6
Job 16:6-14 The Message (MSG)
“When I speak up, I feel no better; if I say nothing, that doesn’t help either. I feel worn down. God, you have wasted me totally—me and my family! You’ve shriveled me like a dried prune, showing the world that you’re against me. My gaunt face stares back at me from the mirror, a mute witness to your treatment of me. Your anger tears at me, your teeth rip me to shreds, your eyes burn holes in me—God, my enemy! People take one look at me and gasp. Contemptuous, they slap me around and gang up against me. And God just stands there and lets them do it, lets wicked people do what they want with me. I was contentedly minding my business when God beat me up. He grabbed me by the neck and threw me around. He set me up as his target, then rounded up archers to shoot at me. Merciless, they shot me full of arrows; bitter bile poured from my gut to the ground. He burst in on me, onslaught after onslaught, charging me like a mad bull.
Job 16:6 King James Version (KJV)
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: And though I forbear, what am I eased?
Job 16:6 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
“If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me?
Job 16:6 New Century Version (NCV)
“Even if I speak, my pain is not less, and if I don’t speak, it still does not go away.
Job 16:6 American Standard Version (ASV)
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?
Job 16:6 New International Version (NIV)
“Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.
Job 16:6 New King James Version (NKJV)
“Though I speak, my grief is not relieved; And if I remain silent, how am I eased?
Job 16:6 Amplified Bible (AMP)
¶“If I speak [to you miserable comforters], my pain is not relieved; And if I refrain [from speaking], what [pain or anguish] leaves me?