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Job 16:5 KJV
Job · chapter 16 · verse 5
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.Job 16:5 · King James Version
Job 16:5 in context
3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
4I 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.
5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- strengthenʼâmatsto be alert, physically or mentallyH553 →
- movingnîydmotionH5205 →
- mouthpehthe mouth , whether literal or figurativeH6310 →
- lipssâphâhthe lipH8193 →
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Both Job and his friends took the same way that disputants commonly take, which is to undervalue one another's sense, and wisdom, and management. The longer the saw of contention is drawn the hotter it grows; and the beginning of this sort of strife is as the letting forth of water;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5