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

Contemporary English Version
But I would offer hope and comfort instead.

New American Bible
I could strengthen you with talk, with mere chatter give relief.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.

I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.

But I would

Job 4:3,4 Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands: . . .

Job 6:14 He that taketh away mercy from his friend, forsaketh the fear of the Lord.

Job 29:25 If I had a mind to go to them, I sat first, and when I sat as a king, with his army standing about him, yet I was a comforter of them that mourned.

Psalm 27:14 Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.

Proverbs 27:9,17 Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart: and the good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul. . . .

Isaiah 35:3,4 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak knees. . . .

Galatians 6:1 Brethren, and if a man be overtaken in any fault, you, who are spiritual, instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.