“It would be easy for me to speak like this just as you did if I were in your condition. But now I am impeded by a pain which neither speech nor silence does not take away, and so he continues, "But what am I to do? If I speak, my pain will not be stilled and if I keep silence, it will not go away from me." For there a…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Job
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6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
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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.
— Job 16:6 —
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.