Job 16:4

I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

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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

3Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?

5But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

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Cross References

Job 6:2“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.

Job 11:2“Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?

Psalms 22:7All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:

Psalms 44:14You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

Proverbs 10:19When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.

Jeremiah 18:16They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and 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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