Job 16:5
I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.
6I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.
Cross References
Job 6:14He that taketh away mercy from his friend, forsaketh the fear of the Lord.
Job 29:25If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned.
Proverbs 27:9Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart: and the good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul.
Isaiah 35:3Strengthen ye the feeble 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 →