Job 16:4

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together 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

3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

5but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

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Cross References

Job 6:2“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

Job 11:2“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

Psalms 22:7All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

Psalms 44:14You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Proverbs 10:19In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

Jeremiah 18:16to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will 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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