5But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.


In Context

2 "I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all!

3 Will your long-winded speeches never end? What ails you that you keep on arguing?

4 I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.

5 But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

6 "Yet if I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, it does not go away.

7 Surely, O God, you have worn me out; you have devastated my entire household.

Job 16:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

16:5I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

16:5I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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