KJVBut I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage your grief.
But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.
[But] I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage [your pain].
Job — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
J O B CHAP. XVI. This chapter begins Job's reply to that discourse of Eliphaz which we had in the foregoing chapter; it is but the second part of the same song of lamentation with which he had before bemoaned himself, and is set to the same melancholy tune. I.…