Job 16:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ I also could talk as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ I also could speak as you do, if you were in my stead; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ 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.

Common English Bible

⁴ In your situation I could speak like you; I could put words together to oppose you, shake my head over you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.

Job 16:4 Cross References

2 Kings 19:21

This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you; she scorns you— virgin daughter Zion; she tosses her head—behind your back, daughter Jerusalem.

Job 11:2

“Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and should one full of talk be vindicated?

Job 16:5

I could encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

Job 35:16

Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge.”

Job 6:14

“Those who withhold kindness from a friend forsake the fear of the Almighty.

Psalm 109:25

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

Psalm 22:7

All who see me mock me; they sneer at me; they shake their heads;

Psalm 22:8

“Commit your cause to the Lord; let him deliver— let him rescue the one in whom he delights!”

Psalm 44:14

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

Proverbs 10:19

When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but the prudent are restrained in speech.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

yet fools talk on and on. No one knows what is to happen, and who can tell anyone what the future holds?

Isaiah 37:22

this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: She despises you; she scorns you— virgin daughter Zion; she tosses her head—behind your back, daughter Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 18:16

making their land a horror, a thing to be hissed at forever. All who pass by it are horrified and shake their heads.

Jeremiah 48:27

Israel was a laughingstock for you, though he was not caught among thieves, but whenever you spoke of him you shook your head!

Lamentations 2:15

All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at daughter Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

Zephaniah 2:15

Is this the exultant city that lived secure, that said to itself, “I am, and there is no one else”? What a desolation it has become, a lair for wild animals! Everyone who passes by it hisses and shakes the fist.

Matthew 7:12

“In everything do to others as you would have them do to you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Romans 12:15

Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

1 Corinthians 12:26

If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.