Job 16:5
I could build you up by my mouth speaking words; the movement of my lips would ease your pain.
Free Bible 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
6For me, if I speak it doesn't ease my pain, and if I don't speak the pain is still there.
Cross References
Job 6:14Anyone who isn't kind to a friend has given up respecting the Almighty.
Job 29:25I decided the way forward as their leader, living like a king among his soldiers, and when they were sad I comforted them.”
Proverbs 27:9Perfume and scented oils make you feel happy, but good advice from a friend is even better.
Isaiah 35:3Make the weak hands strong, and make the trembling knees firm!
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 →