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

“If I speak, my pain is not assuaged,
    and if I forbear, how much of it leaves me?
Surely now God has worn me out;
    (A)he has[a] made desolate all my company.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:7 Hebrew you have; also verse 8

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