Job 16:4

I also could speak as ye do; 1 if your nefesh were in place of my nefesh, 1 I could heap up words against you, 1 and shake mine head at you. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 divrei ruach (vain words) have an end? 1 Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest? 1

5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, 1 and the moving of my shfatayim (lips) should relieve your grief. 1

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Cross References

Job 6:2Oh that my ka'as (vexation) were throughly weighed, 1 and my calamity laid in the scales together! 1

Job 11:2Should not the multitude of devarim be answered? 1 And should an ish full of talk yitzdak (be justified)? 1

Psalms 22:7But I am a tola'at, and no ish; 1 a reproach of men, and despised of the people. + 22:7 See Isa 53:3 on the despised Moshiach 1

Psalms 44:14Thou makest us a cherpah (reproach) to our shchenim (neighbors), 1 a scorn and a derision to them that are all around us. 1

Proverbs 10:19In the multitude of devarim there wanteth not sin, 1 but he that restraineth his sfatayim (lips) is maskil (wise). 1

Jeremiah 18:16To make their eretz desolate, 1 and a perpetual hissing; 1 every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, 1 and shall shake his rosh. 1

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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