Job 16:5 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

I could encourage you with my mouth, and my quivering lips could ease your pain.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

ASV:

But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage your grief .

BBE:

I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.

DBY:

But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage your pain.

ERV:

But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage your grief.

JPS:

I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would assuage your grief.

WBS:

But I would strengthen you with my mouth and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief.

WEB:

but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

YLT:

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

Job 16:5 Cross References

XREF:

Job 16:4 "I too could speak like you, If I were in your place. I could compose words against you And shake my head at you.

Job 16:6 "If I speak, my pain is not lessened, And if I hold back, what has left me? (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

16:5 [But] I would strengthen you {e} with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage [your grief].
(e) If this were in my power, yet I would comfort you and not do as you do to me.

MHC:

16:1-5 Eliphaz had represented Job's discourses as unprofitable, and nothing to the purpose; Job here gives his the same character. Those who pass censures, must expect to have them retorted; it is easy, it is endless, but what good does it do? Angry answers stir up men's passions, but never convince their judgments, nor set truth in a clear light. What Job says of his friends is true of all creatures, in comparison with God; one time or other we shall be made to see and own that miserable comforters are they all. When under convictions of sin, terrors of conscience, or the arrests of death, only the blessed Spirit can comfort effectually; all others, without him, do it miserably, and to no purpose. Whatever our brethren's sorrows are, we ought by sympathy to make them our own; they may soon be so.

CONC:

Assuage Asswage Bring Comfort Encourage Grief Harden Lessen Lips Mouth Moving Pain Relief Relieve Solace Sparing Strength Strengthen

Comfort Encourage Grief Harden Lips Mouth Moving Pain Relief Relieve Solace Sparing Strength Strengthen

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