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Job Chapter 16 verse 5 Holy Bible

ASV Job 16:5

`But' I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage `your grief'.
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BBE Job 16:5

I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.
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DARBY Job 16:5

[But] I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage [your pain].
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KJV Job 16:5

But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
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WBT Job 16:5

But I would strengthen you with my mouth and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief.
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WEB Job 16:5

But I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
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YLT Job 16:5

I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - But I would strengthen you with my mouth. The meaning is somewhat doubtful, and different renderings have been proposed. But the rendering of the Authorized Version is quite defensible, and is accepted by our Revisers. This gives the sense, "I, if I were in your place, would not act as you have acted, but, on the contrary, would do my best to strengthen you with words of comfort and encouragement." The moving of my lips should assuage your grief. (So Rosenmuller and our Revisers.) The words are a covert reproach of the three "friends" for not acting as Job declares that he would have acted if the positions had been reversed.

Ellicott's Commentary