Job 16:4

I also could speak as all of you do: if your soul were in my soul's position, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

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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 emboldens you that you answer?

5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should subside your grief.

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Cross References

Job 6:2Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

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

Psalms 22:7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

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

Proverbs 10:19In the multitude of words there wants not sin: but he that refrains his lips is wise.

Jeremiah 18:16To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passes thereby shall 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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