Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
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Gill's Exposition
But now he hath made me weary,.... Or "it hath made me weary" (u), that is, "my grief", as it may be supplied from Job 16:6; or rather God, as appears from the next clause, and from the following…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Job's complaint is here as bitter as any where in all his discourses, and he is at a stand whether to smother it or to give it vent. Sometimes the one and sometimes the other is a relief to the…
Job realizes to himself his new condition: God and men combine to pursue him with their enmity, though he is innocent of all wrong
In Job 16:16 Job flung back with scorn the "comforts of God" which…