Job 16:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁵ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips should assuage your grief

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ [But] I would strengthen and encourage you with [the words of] my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would soothe your suffering.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage your grief.

Common English Bible

⁵ I could heap up words, strengthen you with my speech; my trembling lips would be held in check.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ I would also comfort you with speeches and would wag my head over you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.

Job 16:5 Cross References

Job 16:4

I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake mine head at you.

Job 16:6

Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: And though I forbear, what am I eased?

Job 29:25

I chose out their way, and sat as chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.

Job 6:14

To him that is ready to faint kindness should be shewed from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

Job 6:25

How forcible are words of uprightness! But what doth your arguing reprove?

Psalm 27:14

Wait on the LORD: Be strong, and let thine heart take courage; Yea, wait thou on the LORD.

Proverbs 27:17

Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Proverbs 27:9

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: So doth the sweetness of a man's friend that cometh of hearty counsel.

Galatians 6:1

Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of meekness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.