Job 16:4 Parallel Translations

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

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.

ASV:

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.

BBE:

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:

DBY:

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;

ERV:

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.

JPS:

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.

WBS:

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.

WEB:

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,

YLT:

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.

Job 16:4 Cross References

XREF:

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)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

16:4 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.

MHC:

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.

CONC:

Compose Fine Heap Join Joining Nod Shake Shaking Soul Souls Soul's Speak Speeches Stead

Fine Hard Head Heap Join Joining Nod Shake Shaking Soul Soul's Speak Speeches Stead Together Words

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