Job 16:4

I also will speak as ye do: 1 If indeed your soul were in my soul’s stead, 1 Then would I insult you with words, 1 And I would shake my head at you. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

3What! is there any reason in vain words? 1 Or what will hinder thee from answering? 1

5And would there were strength in my mouth, 1 And I would not spare the movement of my lips. 1

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Cross References

Job 6:2Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, 1 And take up my griefs in a balance together! 1

Job 11:2He that speaks much, should also hear on the other side: 1 Or does the fluent speaker think himself to be righteous? 1 Blessed is the short-lived offspring of woman. 1

Psalms 44:14All her glory is that of the daughter of the king of Heshbon, 1 Robed as she is in golden fringed garments,

Proverbs 10:19By a multitude of words thou shalt not escape sin; 1 But if thou refrain thy lips thou wilt be prudent. 1

Jeremiah 18:16to make their land a desolation, and a perpetual hissing; all that go through it shall be amazed, and shall shake their heads.

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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