Job 16:6
I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as if being lenient to you.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
In Context
5I would also comfort you with speeches and would wag my head over you.
Cross References
Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life. I will release my words against myself. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 88:15Justice and judgment are the preparation of your throne. Mercy and truth will precede your face.
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 →