OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 5

Job 16:5

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but I would strengthen you with my mouth.

The solace of my lips would relieve you.

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Job 16:5 in context

Job 16:2–8

2

“I have heard many such things.

You are all miserable comforters!

3

Shall vain words have an end?

Or what provokes you that you answer?

4

I also could speak as you do.

If your soul were in my soul’s place,

I could join words together against you,

and shake my head at you,

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but I would strengthen you with my mouth.

The solace of my lips would relieve you.

6

“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided.

Though I forbear, what am I eased?

7

But now, God, you have surely worn me out.

You have made all my company desolate.

8

You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me.

My leanness rises up against me.

It testifies to my face.

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