Job 16:5

[But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage [your grief].

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

In Context

4I also could speak as ye do, if your soul were in my soul's stead. I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

6Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged, and though I forbear, what am I eased?

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Cross References

Job 6:14To him who is ready to faint, kindness [should be] from his friend, even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Job 29:25I chose out their way, and sat [as] chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as a man who comforts the mourners.

Proverbs 27:9Oil and perfume rejoice the heart, so [too] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

Isaiah 35:3Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

Matthew Henry on Job 16:2-6

The Reply of Job to Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 4 I 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. 5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief. Both Job and his friends took the same way that disputants commonly… Read the whole commentary →

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