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Job 16:4 · KJV

“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.”

— Job 16:4

Verse 3

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? {vain...: Heb. words of wind}

Verse 5

{But} I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage {your grief}.

Job 16 — Context

2

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters {are} ye all. {miserable: or, troublesome}

3

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? {vain...: Heb. words of wind}

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 asswage {your grief}.

6

Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and {though} I forbear, what am I eased? {what...: Heb. what goeth from me?}

Cross References

Psalms 22:7

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, {saying}, {shoot...: Heb. open}

Psalms 109:25

I became also a reproach unto them: {when} they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

Lamentations 2:15

All that pass by clap {their} hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, {saying, Is} this the city that {men} call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? {by: Heb. by the way}

Matthew 7:12

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Jeremiah 18:16

To make their land desolate, {and} a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

2 Kings 19:21

This {is} the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, {and} laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

Romans 12:15

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

Matthew 27:39-40

And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,

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