Job 16:5

I might harden you with my mouth, || And the moving of my lips might be sparing.

Literal Standard 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

4I also, like you, might speak, || If your soul were in my soul’s stead. I might join against you with words, || And nod at you with my head.

6If I speak, my pain is not restrained, || And I cease—what goes from me?

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Cross References

Job 6:14To a despiser of his friends [is] shame, || And the fear of the Mighty he forsakes.

Job 29:25I choose their way, and sit [as] head, || And I dwell as a king in a troop, || When he comforts mourners.”

Proverbs 27:9Perfume and incense make the heart glad, || And the sweetness of one’s friend—from counsel of the soul.

Isaiah 35:3Strengthen the feeble hands, || Indeed, strengthen the stumbling 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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