Job 16:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. ”

• Job 16:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  (But I would strengthen you with my mouth With that which proceeds from the mouth - words. And the moving of my lips - My speaking - implying that it would have been done in a mild, gentle, kin...

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• Job 16:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  [But] I would strengthen you (e) with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage [your grief]. (e) If this were in my power, yet I would comfort you and not do as you do to me.

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• Job 16:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job has had enough of his tormenting comforters ( Job 16:2 f.). He could, if the positions were reversed, well enough offer them such mere verbal consolation (the stress in Job 16:5 is on mouth an...

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• Job 16:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief . I would strengthen you with my mouth - Mr. Good translates thus: - "With my own mouth will I overp...

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• Job 16:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  But I would strengthen you with my mouth— I would rather encourage you with my mouth, and the vehemency of my eloquence should be kept within bounds. This is very applicable to the treatment that...

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• Job 16:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief. Strengthen with ... mouth - bitter irony. In allusion to Eliphaz' boasted "consolations" ( Job 1...

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• Job 16:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Fourth Speech ( Job 16:17 ) See introductory remarks on Job 15-21. 1-5. Job retorts scornfully that he too could offer such empty 'comfort' if he were in the friends' place.

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• Job 16:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again i...

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• Job 16:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Turning from “Miserable Comforters” unto God Job 16:1-22 With bitterness the sufferer turns from his comforters to God. As the r.v. makes clear, he says that if he were in their place and they...

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• Job 16:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Job immediately answered. His answer dealt less with the argument they suggested than before. While the darkness was still about him, and in some senses the agony of his soul was deepening, yet it is...

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• Job 16:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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 min...

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• Job 16:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  [But] I would strengthen you with my mouth ,.... Comfort them with the words of his mouth; so God strengthens his people with strength in their souls, when he answers them with good and comfortable...

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• Job 16:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Job 16:5 [But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage [your grief]. Ver. 5. But I would strengthen you with my mouth ] I would speak to your hearts, and r...

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• Job 16:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  But I would strengthen you with my mouth I would endeavour to direct, support, and comfort you, and say all I could to assuage your grief, but nothing to aggravate it. It is natural to sufferers to...

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• Job 16:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOB REPROVES THEIR HEARTLESSNESS (vv.1-5) Eliphaz had claimed to be giving Job "the consolations of God," and this moves Job to reply bitterly, "Miserable comforters are you all!" (v.2). Instead...

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• Job 16:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Reply of Job to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520.       1 Then Job answered and said,   2 I have heard...

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• Job 16:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Strengthen you, i.e. direct, and support, and comfort you. My discourse should comfort you. The words your grief are here understood, either out of the foregoing clause, where they are implied; o...

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• Job 16:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S SECOND REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Complains of the want of sympathy on the part of his friends ( Job 16:2-5 ). 1. They gave him only verses from the ancients about the punishment of the wicked...

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• Job 16:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 16:2 . Miserable comforters are ye all. The Vulgate, “burdensome comforters,” who afflicted instead of consoling their friend. Job 16:3 . Shall vain words have an end. He plainly tells Eli...

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• Job 16:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job answers the second speech of Eliphaz in a discourse which occupies two (short) chapters, and is thus not much more lengthy than the speech of his antagonist. His tone is very desp...

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• Job 16:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Job Complains of the Unmerciful Attitude of his Friends

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• Job 16:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Galatians 6:1 ; Isaiah 35:3 ; Isaiah 35:4 ; Job 29:25 ; Job 4:3 ; Job 4:4 ; Job 6:14 ; Proverbs 27:17 ; Proverbs 27:9 ; Psalms 27:14

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