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Job 16:4

New International Version

I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could make fine speeches against you and shake my head at you.

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This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him: “ ‘Virgin Daughter Zion despises you and mocks you. Daughter Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.

“Are all these words to go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated?

But my mouth would encourage you; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.

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

“Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

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

All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads.

“He trusts in the Lord,” they say, “let the Lord rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him.”

You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.

Sin is not ended by multiplying words, but the prudent hold their tongues.

and fools multiply words. No one knows what is coming— who can tell someone else what will happen after them?

this is the word the Lord has spoken against him: “Virgin Daughter Zion despises and mocks you. Daughter Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.

Their land will be an object of horror and of lasting scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and will shake their heads.

Was not Israel the object of your ridicule? Was she caught among thieves, that you shake your head in scorn whenever you speak of her?

All who pass your way clap their hands at you; they scoff and shake their heads at Daughter Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?”

This is the city of revelry that lived in safety. She said to herself, “I am the one! And there is none besides me.” What a ruin she has become, a lair for wild beasts! All who pass by her scoff and shake their fists.

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.

If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.




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