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.
Job 16:5 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [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) But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage your grief. Common English Bible I could heap up words, strengthen you with my speech; my trembling lips would be held in check. Catholic Public Domain Version I would also comfort you with speeches and would wag my head over you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you. |
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.
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.