Job 16:4

I could talk like you do if you were in my place, stringing words together to criticize you, ridiculing you with a toss of my head.

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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 your windy speeches never cease? What's bothering you that you have to answer me?

5I could build you up by my mouth speaking words; the movement of my lips would ease your pain.

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Cross References

Job 6:2“If my grief could be weighed and my troubles placed on the scales

Job 11:2“So many words should be answered, shouldn't they? Or is a person proved right by doing a lot of talking?

Psalms 22:7People who see me mock me. They laugh at me and shake their heads, saying,

Psalms 44:14You have made us a joke to the other nations; they scornfully shake their heads at us.

Proverbs 10:19If you talk too much, you'll say something wrong. Be wise and take care what you say.

Jeremiah 18:16They have turned their country into a horrific wasteland, a place that will always be treated with contempt. People passing by will be shocked, shaking their heads in disbelief.

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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