Job 16:6

“Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged, etc.] Though he spoke to God in prayer, and entreated for some abatement of his sorrows, he got no relief; and though he spoke to himself in soliloquies, his sorrow was not repressed nor lessened; he could not administer comfort to himself in the present case, though he might to others in like circumstances, if his own were changed; and [though] I forbear speaking, hold my peace, and say nothing, what am I eased? or “what goes from me” f650? not anything of my trouble or grief; sometimes a man speaking of his troubles to his friends gives vent to his grief, and he is somewhat eased; and on the other hand being silent about it, he forgets it, and it…”

“eased--literally, "What (portion of my sufferings) goes from me?"”

“Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged - “But for me, it makes now no difference whether I speak or am silent. My sufferings continue. If I attempt to vindicate myself before people, I am reproached; and equally so if I am silent. If I maintain my cause before God, it avails me nothing, for my sufferings continue. If I am silent, and submit without a complaint, they are the same. Neither silence, nor argument, nor entreaty, avail me before God or man. I am doomed to suffering.” What am I eased? - Margin. “Goeth from me.” Literally, “what goeth from me?” The sense is, that it all availed nothing. return to 'Top of Page'”

“my grief: Job 10:1; Psa 77:1-9, Psa 88:15-18 what am I eased: Heb. what goeth from me Job 16:7”

“6 If I speak, my pain is not soothed; And if I forbear, what alleviation do I experience? 7 Nevertheless now hath He exhausted me; Thou hast desolated all my household, 8 And Thou filledst me with wrinkles - for a witness was it, And my leanness rose up against me Complaining to my face. 9 His wrath tore me, and made war upon me; He hath gnashed upon me with His teeth, As mine enemy He sharpeneth His eyes against me. אם stands with the cohortative in the hypothetical antecedent clause Job 16:6, and in 6b the cohortative stands alone as Job 11:17; Psa 73:16; Psa 139:8, which is more usual, and more in accordance with the meaning which the cohortative has in itself, Ngelsbach, 89, 3. The…”