Job 16:5
But 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 mouing of my lips should asswage your griefe.
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- Galatians 6:1Rank 1 from verse 5
1BRETHREN, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
1¶ Brethren, ‖if a man bee ouertaken in a fault: yee which are spirituall, restore such a one in the spirit of meeknesse, considering thy selfe least thou also be tempted.
- Isaiah 35:3–4Rank 2 from verse 5
3¶ Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
4Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
3¶ *Strengthen yee the weake hands, and confirme the feeble knees.
4†Say to them that are of a fearefull heart; Be strong, feare not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, euen God with a recompence, he will come and saue you.
- Proverbs 27:9Rank 3 from verse 5
3Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
4Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
3Beholde, Thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weake hands.
4Thy words haue vpholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened †the feeble knees.
- Proverbs 27:17Rank 7 from verse 5
- Psalms 27:14Rank 8 from verse 5
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Job 16:5
Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
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strengthen
To make stronger, confirm, encourage, fortify, or increase in power.
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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
Sense 1: The bodily opening used for eating, breathing, and speaking. Sense 2: The opening or entrance of a thing. Sense 3: Speech, utterance, or the agency of speaking.
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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of move, meaning to change place; to stir, shake, prompt, influence, or set in action.
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Sense 1: The physical borders of the mouth. Sense 2: By extension, speech or utterance.
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A verb expressing duty, propriety, expectation, intention, purpose, condition, appointed outcome, or a future event viewed from another time or statement.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
To lessen, ease, relieve, calm, or cause to subside.
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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.
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Sorrow, pain, distress, anguish, trouble, burden, injury, or the cause of such suffering in mind, body, or spirit.
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4I 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.
4I also could speake as yee doe: if your soule were in my soules stead, I could heape vp words against you, and shake mine head at you.
5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the mouing of my lips should asswage your griefe.
Selected passage6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
6Though I speake, my griefe is not asswaged: and though I forbeare; †what am I eased?