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Job 16:6

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

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אִֽםimoh thatאִםconjunction — “oh that”H518used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not(and, can-, doubtless, if, that) (not), [phrase] but, either, [phrase] except, [phrase] more(-over if, than), neither, nevertheless, nor, oh that, or, [phrase] save (only, -ing), seeing, since, sith, [phrase] surely (no more, none, not), t…אֲ֭דַבְּרָהadabrahspeakדָבַרverb, piel, cohortative, 1st person, common, singular — “speak”, a determination or requestH1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdueanswer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, [idiom] well, [idiom] work.לֹאlono , -r,לֹאparticle, negative — “no , -r,”H3808not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles[idiom] before, [phrase] or else, ere, [phrase] except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), ([idiom] as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, [phrase] surely, [phrase] as trul…יֵחָשֵׂ֣ךְyechasekherefrainחָשַׂךְverb, niphal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “refrain”, an unfinished actionH2820to restrain or (reflex.) refrain; by implication, to refuse, spare, preserve; to observeassuage, [idiom] darken, forbear, hinder, hold back, keep (back), punish, refrain, reserve, spare, withhold.כְּאֵבִ֑יkeevigriefכְּאֵבnoun, common, masculine, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, singular — “grief”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH3511suffering (physical or mental), adversitygrief, pain, sorrow.וְ֝אַחְדְּלָ֗הveachdelahand be unoccupiedחָדַלconjunction, verb, qal, cohortative, 1st person, common, singular — “and be unoccupied”, a determination or requestH2308properly, to be flabby, i.e. (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idlecease, end, fall, forbear, forsake, leave (off), let alone, rest, be unoccupied, want.מַהmahhowמָהparticle, interrogative — “how”H4100properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senseshow (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.מִנִּ֥יminifrom fromמִןpreposition, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, singular — “from from”H4480properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many sensesabove, after, among, at, because of, by (reason of), from (among), in, [idiom] neither, [idiom] nor, (out) of, over, since, [idiom] then, through, [idiom] whether, with.יַהֲלֹֽךְyahalokhewalkהָלַךְverb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “walk”, an unfinished actionH1980to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)(all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, [phrase] be eased, enter, exercise (self), [phrase] follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), [phrase] gre…

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

Though I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and though I forbear, what am I eased?

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American Standard Version (1901)

Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?

Young’s Literal Translation

If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease — what goeth from me?

World English Bible

“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?

Darby Translation

If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?

Douay-Rheims

I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Though I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and though I forbear, what am I eased?

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

For if I should speak, I shall not feel the pain of my wound: and if I should be silent, how shall I be wounded the less?

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Ἐὰν γὰρ λαλήσω, οὐκ ἀλγήσω τὸ τραῦμα· ἐὰν δὲ καὶ σιωπήσω, τί ἔλαττον τρωθήσομαι;