Job 16:4

I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

3Shall windy words have no end? or is it any trouble to thee to speak?

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

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Cross References

Job 6:2O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance.

Job 11:2Shall not he that speaketh much, hear also? or shall a man full of talk be justified?

Psalms 22:7But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people.

Psalms 44:14Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.

Proverbs 10:19In the multitude of words there shall not want sin: but he that refraineth his lips is most wise.

Jeremiah 18:16That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a perpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and wag 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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