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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 16:5 - 16:5
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strengthen ... with ... mouth - bitter irony. In allusion to Eliphaz’ boasted “consolations” (Job 15:11). Opposed to strengthening with the heart, that is, with real consolation. Translate, “I also (like you) could strengthen with the mouth,” that is, with heartless talk: “And the moving of my lips (mere lip comfort) could console (in the same fashion as you do)” [Umbreit]. “Hearty counsel” (Pro 27:9) is the opposite.