Job 16:4 I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.

Job 16:4

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New International Version (©1984)
I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"I too could speak like you, If I were in your place. I could compose words against you And shake my head at you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I, too, could speak like you if we could trade places. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you.

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words 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.

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:

Douay-Rheims Bible
I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul. I would comfort you also with words, and would wag my head over you.

Darby Bible 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;

English Revised 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 mine head at you.

Webster's Bible Translation
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 my 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,

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.

Geneva Study Bible

I also could speak as ye do: if your {c} soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and {d} shake mine head at you.

(c) I would that you felt what I do.

(d) That is, mock at your misery, as you do at mine.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4. heap up-rather, "marshal together (an army of) words against you."

shake . head-in mockery; it means nodding, rather than shaking; nodding is not with us, as in the East, a gesture of scorn (Isa 37:22; Jer 18:16; Mt 27:39).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

16:1-5 Eliphaz had represented Job's discourses as unprofitable, and nothing to the purpose; Job here gives his the same character. Those who pass censures, must expect to have them retorted; it is easy, it is endless, but what good does it do? Angry answers stir up men's passions, but never convince their judgments, nor set truth in a clear light. What Job says of his friends is true of all creatures, in comparison with God; one time or other we shall be made to see and own that miserable comforters are they all. When under convictions of sin, terrors of conscience, or the arrests of death, only the blessed Spirit can comfort effectually; all others, without him, do it miserably, and to no purpose. Whatever our brethren's sorrows are, we ought by sympathy to make them our own; they may soon be so.

Psalm 22:7 All who see me sneer at me; They separate with the lip, they wag the head, saying,

Psalm 109:25 I also have become a reproach to them; When they see me, they wag their head.

Zephaniah 2:15 This is the exultant city Which dwells securely, Who says in her heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me." How she has become a desolation, A resting place for beasts! Everyone who passes by her will hiss And wave his hand in contempt.

Matthew 27:39 And those passing by were hurling abuse at Him, wagging their heads (NASB ©1995)

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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.

if your soul 6:2-5,14 Mt 7:12 Ro 12:15 1Co 12:26

up words 11:2 35:16 Pr 10:19 Ec 10:14

shake mine 2Ki 19:21 Ps 22:7 44:14 109:25 Jer 18:16 La 2:15 Mt 27:39,40

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