Job 16:4 “I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up w…”

Job 16:4

I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

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,

American Standard Version

I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.

Geneva Bible 1599

I could also speake as yee doe: (but woulde God your soule were in my soules stead) I could keepe you company in speaking, and could shake mine head at you,

Darby Translation

I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;

Young's Literal Translation

I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.

Bible in Basic English

It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:

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Cross references

“if your soul”

Job 6:2–5 Job 6:14 Matthew 7:12 Romans 12:15 1 Corinthians 12:26

Job 6:2–5 · BSB

“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.

Job 6:14 · BSB

A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

Matthew 7:12 · BSB

In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.

Romans 12:15 · BSB

Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

1 Corinthians 12:26 · BSB

If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

“up words”

Job 11:2 Job 35:16 Proverbs 10:19 Ecclesiastes 10:14

Job 11:2 · BSB

“Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?

Job 35:16 · BSB

So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”

Proverbs 10:19 · BSB

When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.

Ecclesiastes 10:14 · BSB

Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?

“shake mine”

Psalm 22:7 Psalm 109:25 Lamentations 2:15 2 Kings 19:21 Jeremiah 18:16 Psalm 44:14

Psalm 22:7 · BSB

All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:

Psalm 109:25 · BSB

I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.

Lamentations 2:15 · BSB

All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

2 Kings 19:21 · BSB

This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.

Jeremiah 18:16 · BSB

They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

Psalm 44:14 · BSB

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

Also

Zephaniah 2:15

Zephaniah 2:15 · BSB

This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?

5But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.

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