5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
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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.
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. …
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
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 unprofitabl…
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