I would also comfort you with speeches and would wag my head over you.
I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul.
I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as if being lenient to you.
If I wished to go to them, I sat down first, and, though I sat like a king surrounded by an army, yet I was a comforter to whose who mourned.
He who takes away mercy from his friend, abandons the fear of the Lord.
Why have you diminished the words of truth, when there is none of you who is able to offer proof against me?
Iron sharpens iron, and a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
Ointment and various perfumes delight the heart. And the good advice of a friend is sweet to the soul.
And, brothers, if a man has been overtaken by any offense, you who are spiritual should instruct someone like this with a spirit of leniency, considering that you yourselves might also be tempted.