Job 16:5

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But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips would bring you relief.

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  • Job 4:3-4 : 3 Look, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands. 4 Your words have raised up those who stagger, and you have strengthened knees that were about to give way.
  • Job 6:14 : 14 To him who is despairing, kindness should come from his friend, or he will forsake the fear of the Almighty.
  • Job 29:25 : 25 I chose their way and sat as their chief; I lived as a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.
  • Ps 27:14 : 14 Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord.
  • Prov 27:9 : 9 Oil and perfume bring joy to the heart, and the sweetness of a friend comes from heartfelt counsel.
  • Prov 27:17 : 17 As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
  • Isa 35:3-4 : 3 Strengthen the weak hands and make firm the feeble knees. 4 Say to those with fearful hearts, 'Be strong; do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with divine retribution. He will come and save you.'
  • Gal 6:1 : 1 Brothers, if someone is caught in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual should restore such a person with a gentle spirit. Watch yourself, so that you too might not be tempted.

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  • Job 16:6-8
    3 verses
    86%

    6 If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, what do I lose?

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

    8 You have bound me up as a witness; my gauntness rises up and testifies against me.

  • Job 16:1-4
    4 verses
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    1 Then Job replied and said:

    2 I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are all of you.

    3 Will your words of wind never end? Or what provokes you to answer?

    4 I could also speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

  • 18 My grief is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

  • 10 It would still be my comfort— I would even exult in the midst of unrelenting pain— for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 23:4-6
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    4 I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

    5 I would know the words he would answer me with and understand what he would say to me.

    6 Would he contend with me in his great power? No, he would instead give me strength.

  • 2 Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.

  • 20 Let me speak so that I may find relief; let me open my lips and answer.

  • 5 But oh, that God would speak and open His lips against you,

  • 11 Therefore, I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 2 How long will you torment my soul and crush me with words?

  • 27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and smile,'

  • 19 Who can contend with me? For now, if I am silent, I will perish.

  • 28 My soul melts with sorrow; strengthen me according to Your word.

  • 20 Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

  • 2 I said, 'I will guard my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will keep a muzzle on my mouth while the wicked are in my presence.'

  • 11 Are the consolations of God too trivial for you, or a word spoken gently with you?

  • Job 13:5-6
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    5 If only you would keep silent, it would be wisdom for you.

    6 Listen now to my argument and pay attention to the contentions of my lips.

  • 15 What shall I say? He has spoken to me, and He has done this. I will walk humbly all my years because of this anguish of my soul.

  • 16 "Because of these things I weep; my eyes, my eyes flow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are desolate because the enemy has prevailed."

  • Job 6:2-3
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    2 If only my grief could be weighed and my calamity placed together on the scales!

    3 For now, it is heavier than the sands of the seas; that is why my words are impulsive.

  • 13 When I think my bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,

  • 16 Yes, my inmost being will exult when your lips speak what is right.

  • 2 If someone attempts to speak with you, will you be impatient? But who can keep from speaking?

  • Job 21:4-5
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    4 Is my complaint directed to a man? Why then should my spirit not be impatient?

    5 Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.

  • 25 How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove?

  • 50 This is my comfort in my affliction: that Your word has given me life.

  • 16 Indeed, He has enticed you out of the jaws of distress into a broad and unconfined place; your table is filled with abundance.

  • 15 If I had spoken out like that, I would have betrayed Your children.

  • 1 I am disgusted with my life; I will give voice to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 2 Even today my complaint is bitter; my suffering is heavier than my groaning.

  • 16 My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death.

  • Job 33:2-3
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    2 Look, I have opened my mouth; my tongue has spoken in my mouth.

    3 My words come from an upright heart, and my lips speak with clarity.

  • 25 For I have satisfied the weary soul and replenished every languishing soul.

  • 34 So how can you comfort me with empty words, since your answers remain falsehoods?

  • 13 Be silent and let me speak. Whatever happens to me, let it come!

  • 13 That you turn your spirit against God and let words escape from your mouth?

  • 21 Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as one does for his neighbor.

  • 14 I behaved as if they were my friend or brother; I mourned as one mourning for a mother, bowed down in sorrow.

  • 3 But I desire to speak to the Almighty, and I wish to reason with God.