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Job 16:5-7
1599 Geneva Bible
Job 16:5-7
1599 Geneva Bible
5 But I would strengthen you [a]with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips should assuage your sorrow.
6 Though I speak, my sorrow [b]cannot be assuaged: though I cease, what release have I?
7 But now [c]he maketh me weary: O God, thou hast made all my [d]congregation desolate,
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- Job 16:5 If this were in my power, yet would I comfort you, and not do as ye do to me.
- Job 16:6 If they would say, Why dost thou not then comfort thyself? he answereth, that the judgments of God are more heavy than he is able to assuage either by words or silence.
- Job 16:7 Meaning, God.
- Job 16:7 That is, destroyed most of my family.
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