Job 16:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁵ Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Job 16:4

If you were in my place I could also talk like you. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you.

Job 16:6

If I speak, my suffering is not relieved, and if I hold back, does any of it leave me?

Job 29:25

I directed their course and presided as chief. I lived as a king among his troops, like one who comforts those who mourn.

Job 6:14

A despairing man should receive loyalty from his friends,  , even if he abandons the fear of the Almighty.

Job 6:25

How painful honest words can be! But what does your rebuke prove?

Proverbs 27:17

Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens another.

Proverbs 27:9

Oil  and incense bring joy to the heart, and the sweetness of a friend is better than self-counsel.

Galatians 6:1

Brothers and sisters, if someone is overtaken in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual, restore such a person with a gentle  spirit,  , watching out for yourselves so that you won’t also be tempted.