Job 16:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

Job 16:5 —

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Cross-References

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Galatians 6:1
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Isaiah 35:3-4
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. …
Proverbs 27:9
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Job 6:14
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
Job 29:25
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Speaking

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

Both Job and his friends took the same way that disputants commonly take, which is to undervalue one another’s sense, and wisdom, and management. The longer the saw of contention is drawn the hotter it grows; and the beginning of this sort of strife is as the letting forth of water; therefore leave it off before it be meddled with. Eliphaz had represented Job’s discourses as idle, and unprofitable…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. strengthen ... with ... mouth--bitter irony. In allusion to Eliphaz’ boasted “consolations” (Job 15:11). Opposed to strengthening with the heart, that is, with real consolation. Translate, “I also (like you) could strengthen with the mouth,” that is, with heartless talk: “And the moving of my lips (mere lip comfort) could console (in the same fashion as you do)” [Umbreit]. “Hearty counsel” (Pr…