Job 16:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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:

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  • Ps 22:7 : 7 I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,
  • Ps 109:25 : 25 As for me, they make sport of me; shaking their heads when they see me.
  • Lam 2:15 : 15 All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?
  • Jer 18:16 : 16 Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head.
  • 2 Kgs 19:21 : 21 This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.
  • Job 6:2-5 : 2 If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble! 3 For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled. 4 For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me. 5 Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?
  • Job 6:14 : 14 He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.
  • Job 11:2 : 2 Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk?
  • Job 35:16 : 16 And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.
  • Eccl 10:14 : 14 The foolish are full of words; man has no knowledge of what will be; and who is able to say what will be after him?
  • Ps 44:14 : 14 Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.
  • Zeph 2:15 : 15 This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.
  • Matt 7:12 : 12 All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.
  • Matt 27:39-40 : 39 And those who went by said bitter words to him, shaking their heads and saying, 40 You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.
  • Rom 12:15 : 15 Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.
  • 1 Cor 12:26 : 26 And if there is pain in one part of the body, all the parts will be feeling it; or if one part is honoured, all the parts will be glad.

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  • Job 16:5-6
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    5 I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.

    6 If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?

  • Job 16:1-3
    3 verses
    76%

    1 And Job made answer and said,

    2 Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.

    3 May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?

  • Job 23:4-5
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    4 I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.

    5 I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me.

  • Job 21:3-4
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    72%

    3 Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.

    4 As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?

  • Job 13:19
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    19 Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

  • Job 33:5
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    5 If you are able, give me an answer; put your cause in order, and come forward.

  • Job 19:5
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    5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

  • Job 13:3
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    3 But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.

  • Job 19:2
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    2 How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?

  • Job 6:10
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    10 So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 4:2
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    2 If one says a word, will it be a weariness to you? but who is able to keep from saying what is in his mind?

  • Job 11:3-5
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    70%

    3 Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

    4 You may say, My way is clean, and I am free from sin in your eyes.

    5 But if only God would take up the word, opening his lips in argument with you;

  • Ps 73:15
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    15 If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

  • Job 15:13
    69%

    13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • Job 13:13-14
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    69%

    13 Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.

    14 I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

  • Job 32:17
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    17 I will give my answer; I will put forward my knowledge:

  • Job 9:14
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    14 How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?

  • Job 6:25-26
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    25 How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?

    26 My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.

  • Job 7:11
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    11 So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

  • Job 6:2-3
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    69%

    2 If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble!

    3 For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.

  • Job 16:21
    69%

    21 So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.

  • Job 10:1
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    1 My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.

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    32 If you have anything to say, give me an answer; for it is my desire that you may be judged free from sin.

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    18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

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    20 Let me say what is in my mind, so that I may get comfort; let me give answer with open mouth.

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    12 For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

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    3 But I have a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as these?

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    2 I made no sound, I said no word, even of good; and I was moved with sorrow.

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    14 I will not put forward words like these, or make use of your sayings in answer to him.

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    4 Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?

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    19 If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

  • Job 31:36
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    36 Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown;

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    15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

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    4 To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?

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    6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

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    15 I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.

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    22 Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer.

  • Job 13:5
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    5 If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!

  • Job 9:35
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    35 Then I would say what is in my mind without fear of him; for there is no cause of fear in myself.

  • Job 42:4
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    4 Give ear to me, and I will say what is in my mind; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.