Job 16:5

NETBible

But 1  I would strengthen 2  you with my words; 3  comfort from my lips would bring 4  you relief.

NIV ©

But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

NASB ©

"I could strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.

NLT ©

But that’s not what I would do. I would speak in a way that helps you. I would try to take away your grief.

MSG ©

But I'd never do that. I'd console and comfort, make things better, not worse!

BBE ©

I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.

NRSV ©

I could encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

NKJV ©

But I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the comfort of my lips would relieve your grief .

KJV
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NASB ©
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NETBible

But 1  I would strengthen 2  you with my words; 3  comfort from my lips would bring 4  you relief.

NET Notes

1 tn “But” has been added in the translation to strengthen the contrast.

2 tn The Piel of אָמַץ (’amats) means “to strengthen, fortify.”

3 tn Heb “my mouth.”

4 tn The verb יַחְשֹׂךְ (yakhsokh) means “to restrain; to withhold.” There is no object, so many make it first person subject, “I will not restrain.” The LXX and the Syriac have a different person – “I would not restrain.” G. R. Driver, arguing that the verb is intransitive here, made it “the solace of my lips would not [added] be withheld” (see JTS 34 [1933]: 380). D. J. A. Clines says that what is definitive is the use of the verb in the next line, where it clearly means “soothed, assuaged.”