Job 16:5
I would also comfort you with speeches and would wag my head over you.
Catholic Public Domain 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, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul.
6I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as if being lenient to you.
Cross References
Job 6:14He who takes away mercy from his friend, abandons the fear of the Lord.
Job 29:25If I wished to go to them, I sat down first, and, though I sat like a king surrounded by an army, yet I was a comforter to those who mourned.
Proverbs 27:9Ointment and various perfumes delight the heart. And the good advice of a friend is sweet to the soul.
Isaiah 35:3Strengthen the lax hands, and confirm the weak 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 →