Job 16:4

I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul.

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In The King James Version

I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

In Context

3Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?

5I would also comfort you with speeches and would wag my head over you.

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Cross References

Job 6:2I wish that my sins, for which I deserve wrath, and the calamity that I endure, were weighed out on a balance.

Job 11:2Will he who speaks much, not also listen? Or will a talkative man be justified?

Psalms 44:14All the glory of the daughter of its king is inside, in golden fringes,

Proverbs 10:19In a multitude of speaking, sin will not be lacking. But whoever tempers his lips is most prudent.

Jeremiah 18:16And so their land has been given over to desolation and to perpetual hissing. Each one who passes by will be astonished and will shake his head.

Matthew Henry on Job 16:2-6

The Reply of Job to Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. 5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief. Both Job and his friends took the same way that disputants commonly… Read the whole commentary →

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