Text -- Job 16:6 (NET)

Abandonment by God and Man

16:6 “But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking –how much of it goes away?

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 16:6

¹ tn “But” is supplied in the translation to strengthen the contrast.

² tn The Niphal יֵחָשֵׂךְ (yekhasekh) means “to be soothed; to be assuaged.”

³ tn Some argue that מָה (mah) in the text is the Arabic ma, the simple negative. This would then mean “it does not depart far from me.” The interrogative used rhetorically amounts to the same thing, however, so the suggestion is not necessary.