What does Job 16:6 mean?

Job 16:6 highlights themes such as grief, suffering, silence when read in context.

How should I apply Job 16:6 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

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

4I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

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Psalm 38:9
Both verses express deep grief and the feeling of being unheard in suffering.