Job 16:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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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“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.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 16:4 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- Job 6:2“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
- Job 6:14A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
- 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.”
- Psalms 22:7All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:
- Psalms 22:8“He trusts in the LORD, let the LORD deliver him; let the LORD rescue him, since He delights in him.”
- 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.
- 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?
- 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?”
- Zephaniah 2:15This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
- 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.
- Matthew 27:39And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads
- 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.
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