Job 16:5

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

Related Commentaries of 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 t...
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 com...
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 co...
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 tr...
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 boun...
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 a...
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 'comfor...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job would have acted very differently ( Job 4:3-4 ; Job 29 ), giving no mere lip-comfort. 6-17. Job enlarges on the wrath of God and the enmity o...
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...
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...
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 sen...
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...
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 soul...
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 w...
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 noth...
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,...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Reply of Job to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. ...
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...
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 fro...
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 . S...
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 t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Complains of the Unmerciful Attitude of his Friends
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

But I would strengthen you with my mouth, mere words taking the place of real deeds of love, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief, a...

⁵ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

Related Commentaries of Job 16:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 16:5