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Job 16:4
Job 16:4 is verse 4 of Job chapter 16, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
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,
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Job 16:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible
2 “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
3 Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
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.
5 But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
6 Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 6:2“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
Job 6:3For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas— no wonder my words have been rash.
Job 6:4For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
Job 6:5Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass, or an ox low over its fodder?
Job 6:14A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
Matthew 7:12In 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 12:15Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
1 Corinthians 12:26If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
Job 11:2“Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?
Job 35:16So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
Proverbs 10:19When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.
Ecclesiastes 10:14Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
2 Kings 19:21This 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.
Psalms 22:7All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:
Psalms 44:14You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
Psalms 109:25I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.
Jeremiah 18:16They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
Lamentations 2:15All 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?”
Matthew 27:39And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads
Matthew 27:40and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”