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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- Job 4:3-4 : 3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. 4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
- Job 6:14 : 14 ¶ To him that is afflicted pity [should be shewed] from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
- Job 29:25 : 25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforteth the mourners.
- Ps 27:14 : 14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
- Prov 27:9 : 9 ¶ Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so [doth] the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
- Prov 27:17 : 17 ¶ Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
- Isa 35:3-4 : 3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. 4 Say to them [that are] of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [even] God [with] a recompence; he will come and save you.
- Gal 6:1 : 1 ¶ Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
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6 ¶ Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased?
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1 ¶ Then Job answered and said,
2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all.
3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
4 I also could speak as ye [do]: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
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18 [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.
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10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
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4 I would order [my] cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
5 I would know the words [which] he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.
6 Will he plead against me with [his] great power? No; but he would put [strength] in me.
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2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
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20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.
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5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
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11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
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2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
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27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:
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20 [Are] not my days few? cease [then, and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
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2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
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34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
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13 ¶ Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will].
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13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest [such] words go out of thy mouth?
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21 O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man [pleadeth] for his neighbour!
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3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.