Job 16:5
But I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
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Referenced Verses
- Job 4:3-4 : 3 Behold, you have instructed many, You have strengthened the weak hands. 4 Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.
- Job 6:14 : 14 "To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; Even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
- Job 29:25 : 25 I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, As one who comforts the mourners.
- Ps 27:14 : 14 Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.
- Prov 27:9 : 9 Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; So does earnest counsel from a man's friend.
- Prov 27:17 : 17 Iron sharpens iron; So a man sharpens his friend's countenance.
- Isa 35:3-4 : 3 Strengthen you the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. 4 Tell those who are of a fearful heart, Be strong, don't be afraid: behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [with] the recompense of God; he will come and save you.
- Gal 6:1 : 1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.
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- Job 16:6-83 verses86%
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 desolate all my company.
8 You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me, It testifies to my face.
- Job 16:1-44 verses82%
1 Then Job answered,
2 "I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you all!
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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18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.
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10 Be it still my consolation, Yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
- Job 23:4-63 verses72%
4 I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.
5 I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would tell me.
6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.
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2 "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
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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 you,
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11 "Therefore I will not keep silent. 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 you torment me, And crush me with words?
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27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'
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19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
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28 My soul is weary with sorrow: Strengthen me according to your word.
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20 Aren't my days few? Cease then, Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
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2 I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
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11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, Even the word that is gentle toward you?
- Job 13:5-62 verses70%
5 Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
6 Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
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15 What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
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16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.
- Job 6:2-32 verses69%
2 "Oh that my anguish were weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, Therefore have my words been rash.
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13 When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;'
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16 Yes, my heart will rejoice, When your lips speak what is right.
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2 "If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
- Job 21:4-52 verses69%
4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?
5 Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
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25 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
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50 This is my comfort in my affliction, For your word has revived me.
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15 If I had said, "I will speak thus;" Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
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16 My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
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2 See now, I have opened my mouth. My tongue has spoken in my mouth.
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25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.
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13 "Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
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13 That you turn your spirit against God, And let such words go out of your mouth?
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14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.
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3 "Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.