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Job 16:5

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

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  1. Job 16:3

    Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

  2. Job 16:4

    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 mine head at you.

  3. Job 16:6

    Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

  4. Job 16:7

    But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.