What Does "Forbear" Mean in the KJB?

Job 16:6 Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

To "forbear" is to withhold yourself from doing something or saying something.

Here is a point I did not talk about in the study, but it ties into Exodus 23:5.

If you love your neighbour as yourself you will not forbear to help them.

Exodus 23:5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

If you see your neighbour in sin, do not forbear to say something. Open your mouth and rebuke them. Do not suffer sin upon them.

Leviticus 19:17-18

17 ¶ Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

18 ¶ Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.

As Paul says in

Romans 13:9-10

9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Our flesh gets tired and weary and can forbear to do or say something we ought to do or say. We must stand fast in the faith, being sober and vigilant. When you have the thought to do something right, obey it right away! Do not forbear. Obey now!

If you see something evil be done in front of you, reprove the unfruitful works of darkness.

Ephesians 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

Here is a mention of the word "forbear" in a hymn from the 1700s. This hymn is found in the book "Olney Hymns" originally published in 1779; the combined work of John Newton and William Cowper.