Balag בָּלַג

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Balag (Hebrew בָּלַג, Strong's H1082) is a Hebrew verb meaning “be cheerful”. It occurs 4 times in 4 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to gleam, smile
1a) (Hiphil) only
1a1) to show a smile, look pleasant
1a2) to cause to burst

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

KJV	comfort (2), strength (1), strengtheneth (1)
BSB	smile (1), i may have a little comfort (1), i may again be cheered (1), he flashes (1)

Every verse with Balag, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Job 9:27
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’
Job 10:20
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,

Psalm 39:13
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”

Amos 5:9
That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).