Bible in Basic English
"If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?"
— Job 16:6, Bible in Basic English
“Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?”
“ Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased? ”
“"Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?”
“Abandonment by God and Man“But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking– how much of it goes away?”
“I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.”
May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:
I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.
If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?
But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.
I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;