Job 16:5

5 Je vous fortifierais avec ma bouche, et le mouvement de mes lèvres vous soulagerait.

Job 16:5 Meaning and Commentary

Job 16:5

[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 words; an angel strengthened Christ as man when in an agony, comforting him, suggesting comfortable things to him; so one saint may strengthen and comfort another when in distress, whether of soul or body; see ( Psalms 138:3 ) ( Luke 22:43 Luke 22:32 ) ; and thus Job had strengthened and comforted others, with his words in former times, as Eliphaz himself owns, ( Job 4:3 Job 4:4 ) and so he would again, were there a change in his circumstances, and objects presented:

and the moving of my lips should assuage [your grief]:
words uttered by him, which are done by the moving of the lips, should be such as would have a tendency to allay grief, to stop, restrain, forbid, and lessen sorrow; at least that it might not break out in an extravagant way, and exceed bounds, and that his friends might not be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

Job 16:5 In-Context

3 N'y aura-t-il point de fin à ces discours en l'air? Et qu'est-ce qui te force à me répondre?

4 Moi aussi, je parlerais comme vous, si vous étiez à ma place. J'accumulerais des paroles contre vous; je hocherais la tête sur vous;

5 Je vous fortifierais avec ma bouche, et le mouvement de mes lèvres vous soulagerait.

6 Si je parle, ma douleur ne sera point soulagée. Si je me tais, en sera-t-elle diminuée?

7 Maintenant il m'a épuisé. Tu as dévasté toute ma famille,