Key Verse Spotlight
Job 16:5 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“{But} I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage {your grief}.”
Job 16:5
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? {vain...: Heb. words of wind}
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 mine head at you.
{But} I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage {your grief}.
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and {though} I forbear, what am I eased? {what...: Heb. what goeth from me?}
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
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