Job 16:5

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 4:3-4 : 3 Lo, thou hast instructed many, And feeble hands thou makest strong. 4 The stumbling one do thy words raise up, And bowing knees thou dost strengthen.
  • Job 6:14 : 14 To a despiser of his friends `is' shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.
  • Job 29:25 : 25 I choose their way, and sit head, And I dwell as a king in a troop, When mourners he doth comfort.
  • Ps 27:14 : 14 Look unto Jehovah -- be strong, And He doth strengthen thy heart, Yea, look unto Jehovah!
  • Prov 27:9 : 9 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart, And the sweetness of one's friend -- from counsel of the soul.
  • Prov 27:17 : 17 Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.
  • Isa 35:3-4 : 3 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen. 4 Say to the hastened of heart, `Be strong, Fear not, lo, your God; vengeance cometh, The recompence of God, He Himself doth come and save you.'
  • Gal 6:1 : 1 Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who `are' spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself -- lest thou also may be tempted;

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  • Job 16:6-8
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    6 If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease -- what goeth from me?

    7 Only, now, it hath wearied me; Thou hast desolated all my company,

    8 And Thou dost loathe me, For a witness it hath been, And rise up against me doth my failure, In my face it testifieth.

  • Job 16:1-4
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    1 And Job answereth and saith: --

    2 I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters `are' ye all.

    3 Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?

    4 I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.

  • 18 My refreshing for me `is' sorrow, For me my heart `is' sick.

  • 10 And yet it is my comfort, (And I exult in pain -- He doth not spare,) That I have not hidden The sayings of the Holy One.

  • Job 23:4-6
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    4 I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill `with' arguments.

    5 I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me.

    6 In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth `it' in me.

  • 2 Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation.

  • 20 I speak, and there is refreshment to me, I open my lips and answer.

  • 5 And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.

  • 11 Also I -- I withhold not my mouth -- I speak in the distress of my spirit, I talk in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 2 Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?

  • 27 Though I say, `I forget my talking, I forsake my corner, and I brighten up!'

  • 19 Who `is' he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.

  • 28 My soul hath dropped from affliction, Establish me according to Thy word.

  • 20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,

  • 2 I was dumb `with' silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.

  • 11 Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word `is' with thee,

  • Job 13:5-6
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    5 O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.

    6 Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,

  • 15 -- What do I say? seeing He said to me, And He Himself hath wrought, I go softly all my years for the bitterness of my soul.

  • 16 For these I am weeping, My eye, my eye, is running down with waters, For, far from me hath been a comforter, Refreshing my soul, My sons have been desolate, For mighty hath been an enemy.

  • Job 6:2-3
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    2 O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!

    3 For now, than the sands of the sea it is heavier, Therefore my words have been rash.

  • 13 When I said, `My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.

  • 16 And my reins exult when thy lips speak uprightly.

  • 2 Hath one tried a word with thee? -- Thou art weary! And to keep in words who is able?

  • Job 21:4-5
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    4 I -- to man `is' my complaint? and if `so', wherefore May not my temper become short?

    5 Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.

  • 25 How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?

  • 50 This `is' my comfort in mine affliction, That Thy saying hath quickened me.

  • 16 And also He moved thee from a strait place, `To' a broad place -- no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness.

  • 15 If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

  • 1 My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 2 Also -- to-day `is' my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.

  • 16 My face is foul with weeping, And on mine eyelids `is' death-shade.

  • Job 33:2-3
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    2 Lo, I pray thee, I have opened my mouth, My tongue hath spoken in the palate.

    3 Of the uprightness of my heart `are' my sayings, And knowledge have my lips clearly spoken.

  • 25 For I have satiated the weary soul, And every grieved soul I have filled.'

  • 34 And how do ye comfort me `with' vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?

  • 13 Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?

  • 13 For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:

  • 21 And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.

  • 14 As `if' a friend, as `if' my brother, I walked habitually, As a mourner for a mother, Mourning I have bowed down.

  • 3 Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.