Job 16:4

I also, like you, could speak,—If your soul were in the place of my soul, I could string together words against you, and could therewith shake over you my head.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 to be an end to windy words? Or what so strongly exciteth thee, that thou must respond?

5I could make you determined, by my mouth, and then my lip-solace should restrain you.

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Cross References

Job 6:2Oh that, weighed, were my vexation, and, my engulfing ruin—into the balances, they would lift up all at once!

Job 11:2Should, the multitude of words, not be answered? Or should, a man full of talk, be justified?

Psalms 22:7All that see me, laugh at me,—They open wide the mouth, They shake the head:—

Psalms 44:14Thou dost make us, A by-word among the nations,—A shaking of the head among the peoples.

Proverbs 10:19In the multitude of words, there wanteth not transgression, but, he that restraineth his lips, sheweth prudence.

Jeremiah 18:16To make their land a desolation The hissings of age-abiding times,—Every one that passeth by her, shall be astonished and wag 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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