Job 16:6
And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
In Context
5then would I insult you with words, and I would shake my head at you.
Cross References
Job 10:1Weary in my soul, I will pour my words with groans upon him: I will speak being straitened in the bitterness of my soul.
Psalms 88:15Blessed is the people that knows the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of your countenance. 1
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 →