But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief.
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.
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
How forcible are right words! But what doth your arguing reprove?
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.