Job 16:5

[But] I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage [your pain].

Darby Translation

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: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;

6If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?

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Cross References

Job 6:14For him that is fainting kindness [is meet] from his friend; or he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

Job 29:25I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.

Proverbs 27:9Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; and the sweetness of one's friend is [the fruit] of hearty counsel.

Isaiah 35:3Strengthen the weak hands and confirm the tottering 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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