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Job 16:6–7

Instead, I suffer if I defend myself,

and I suffer no less if I refuse to speak.

“O God, you have ground me down

and devastated my family.

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Job 16:6–7 — The New International Version (NIV)

“Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved;

and if I refrain, it does not go away.

Surely, God, you have worn me out;

you have devastated my entire household.

Job 16:6–7 — English Standard Version (ESV)

“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,

and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

Surely now God has worn me out;

he has made desolate all my company.

Job 16:6–7 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged:

And though I forbear, what am I eased?

But now he hath made me weary:

Thou hast made desolate all my company.

Job 16:6–7 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

“Though I speak, my grief is not relieved;

And if I remain silent, how am I eased?

But now He has worn me out;

You have made desolate all my company.

Job 16:6–7 — 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.

God, you have surely taken away my strength

and destroyed my whole family.

Job 16:6–7 — American Standard Version (ASV)

Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged;

And though I forbear, what am I eased?

But now he hath made me weary:

Thou hast made desolate all my company.

Job 16:6–7 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased? But now he hath made me weary; …thou hast made desolate all my family;

Job 16:6–7 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

If I speak, my pain is not eased. 

If I stop talking, how much of it will go away? 

“But now, God has worn me out. 

You, ⸤God,⸥ have destroyed everyone who supports me. 

Job 16:6–7 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

Even if I speak, my suffering is not relieved,

and if I hold back, what have I lost?

Surely He has now exhausted me.

You have devastated my entire family.

Job 16:6–7 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,

and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?

Surely now God has worn me out;

he has made desolate all my company.

Job 16:6–7 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

If I speak, my pain is not relieved;

and if I cease, how much will leave me?

“Surely now he has worn me out;

you have devastated all my company.

Job 16:6–7 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

“If I speak, it doesn’t help me.

And if I keep quiet, my pain doesn’t go away.

God has worn me out completely.

He has destroyed my whole family.

Job 16:6–7 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

If I speak, my pain is not lessened,

And if I hold back, what has left me?

“But now He has exhausted me;

You have laid waste all my company.


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