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Job 16

Job 16:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Though I speak
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
, my grief
k'eb (Hebrew #3511)
suffering (physical or mental), adversity
KJV usage: grief, pain, sorrow.
Pronounce: keh-abe'
Origin: from 3510
is not asswaged
chasak (Hebrew #2820)
to restrain or (reflex.) refrain; by implication, to refuse, spare, preserve; also (by interch. with 2821) to observe
KJV usage: assuage, X darken, forbear, hinder, hold back, keep (back), punish, refrain, reserve, spare, withhold.
Pronounce: khaw-sak'
Origin: a primitive root
: and though I forbear
chadal (Hebrew #2308)
properly, to be flabby, i.e. (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle
KJV usage: cease, end, fall, forbear, forsake, leave (off), let alone, rest, be unoccupied, want.
Pronounce: khaw-dal'
Origin: a primitive root
, what ζam I eased
halak (Hebrew #1980)
a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, + be eased, enter, exercise (self), + follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), + greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, X more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), + send, speedily, spread, still, surely, + tale-bearer, + travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-)faring man, X be weak, whirl.
Pronounce: haw-lak'
Origin: akin to 3212
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goeth from me?

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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my grief.
Job 10:1• 1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. (Job 10:1)
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Psa. 77:1‑9• 1<<To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.>> I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
 2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
 3I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
 4Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
 5I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
 6I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
 7Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favorable no more?
 8Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
 9Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. (Psa. 77:1‑9)
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Psa. 88:15‑18• 15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
 16Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
 17They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
 18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. (Psa. 88:15‑18)
what am I eased.
Heb. what goeth from me.
• Under the wrath of God and the hatred of man (vers. 6-14). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)
• Turning to God, in whom he should have found abundant consolation, Job charges Him as the author of his misery and suffering, But his complaint and hot words give him no relief. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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