Job 16:6

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

If I speak, my sorrow is not relieved; and if I cease, how will it go from me?

Latin

Sed quid agam? Si locutus fuero, non quiescet dolor meus, et si tacuero, non recedet a me.

Hebrew

English

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

Job 10:1
“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalm 88:15–18
From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair.
Psalm 77:1–9
For the choirmaster. According to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. I cried out to God; I cried aloud to God to hear me.