Job 16:4

I also could speak as ye do; if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

5I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would assuage your grief.

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Cross References

Job 6:2Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances altogether!

Job 11:2Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be accounted right?

Psalms 22:7(22-8) All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head:

Psalms 44:14(44-15) Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Proverbs 10:19In the multitude of words there wanteth not transgression; but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

Jeremiah 18:16To make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and 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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