Job 16:4

I also might speak like you, If ye were now in my place; I might string together 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

3Will there ever be an end to words of wind? What stirreth thee up, that thou answerest?

5I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the consolation of my lips should sustain you.

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Cross References

Job 6:2O that my grief were weighed thoroughly! That my calamities were put together in the balance!

Job 11:2Shall not the multitude of words receive an answer? Shall the man of words be justified?

Psalms 22:7All who see me scoff at me; They open wide the lips; they shake the head.

Psalms 44:14Thou makest us a byword among the nations, And causest the people to shake their heads at us.

Proverbs 10:19In the multitude of words there wanteth not offence; But he who restraineth his lips is wise.

Jeremiah 18:16To make their land a desolation, A perpetual hissing; Every one that passeth through it shall be amazed, 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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