Job 16:6
I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.
Cross References
Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life, I will let go my speech against myself, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 88:15Lord, why castest thou off my prayer: why turnest thou away thy face from me?
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 →