Job 16:5
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
In other versions
`But' I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage `your grief'.
ASV
I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.
BBE
[But] I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage [your pain].
DBY
But I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
WEB
I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.
YLT
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should subside your grief.
ENG
But I would strengthen you with my mouth and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief.
WBT
But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
BSB
In context
3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
4I 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.
5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.