Job 16:4
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.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 16 connects to 10 cross-references. Job calls his friends 'miserable comforters' and says he could speak as they do if their positions were reversed. He describes God as his adversary who has handed him over to the ungodly. Yet amid despair he appeals to his …
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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.
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.
It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:
Referências Cruzadas
This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, …
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.