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.
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if your soul

Job 6:2-5, 14
"If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales. . . .

Matthew 7:12
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
Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

1 Corinthians 12:26
If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

up words

Job 11:2
"Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?

Job 35:16
So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge."

Proverbs 10:19
When words are many, sin is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.

Ecclesiastes 10:14
Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?

shake mine

2 Kings 19:21
This is the word 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.

Psalm 22:7
All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:

Psalm 44:14
You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

Psalm 109:25
I am an object of scorn to my accusers; when they see me, they shake their heads.

Jeremiah 18:16
They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; everyone who passes by will be appalled and shake their heads.

Lamentations 2:15
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 the whole earth?"

Matthew 27:39, 40
And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads, . . .

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
"I too could speak like you, If I were in your place. I could compose words 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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If you were in my place I could also talk like you. I could string words together against you and shake my head at you.

International Standard Version
"I could also talk like you if only you were in my place! Then I would put together an argument against you. I would shake my head at you

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