Albert Barnes Commentary Job 16:6

"Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?" — Job 16:6 (ASV)

Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged (Job 16:6) — But for me, it makes no difference now 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 is of no use to me, for my sufferings continue.

If I am silent and submit without a complaint, they remain the same. Neither silence, nor argument, nor entreaty is of any use to me before God or humanity. I am doomed to suffering.

What am I eased? (Job 16:6) — Margin: “Goes from me.” Literally, “what goes from me?” The sense is that it all was of no use.