Job 16:4

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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.

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  • Ps 22:7 : 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
  • Ps 109:25 : 25 I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
  • Lam 2:15 : 15 All that pass by cp their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
  • Jer 18:16 : 16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
  • 2 Kgs 19:21 : 21 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
  • Job 6:2-5 : 2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. 5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
  • Job 6:14 : 14 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
  • Job 11:2 : 2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
  • Job 35:16 : 16 Therefore doth open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
  • Eccl 10:14 : 14 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
  • Ps 44:14 : 14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
  • Zeph 2:15 : 15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
  • Matt 7:12 : 12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
  • Matt 27:39-40 : 39 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, 40 And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
  • Rom 12:15 : 15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
  • 1 Cor 12:26 : 26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

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    5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

    6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

  • Job 16:1-3
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    1Then answered and said,

    2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

    3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

  • Job 23:4-5
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    4I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

    5I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

  • Job 21:3-4
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    3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

    4As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

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    19Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

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    5If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.

  • Job 19:5
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    5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

  • Job 13:3
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    3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

  • Job 19:2
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    2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

  • Job 6:10
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    10Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 4:2
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    2If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

  • Job 11:3-5
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    3Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

    4For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

    5But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

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    15If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

  • Job 15:13
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    13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth?

  • Job 13:13-14
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    13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

    14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

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    17I said, I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.

  • Job 9:14
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    14How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

  • Job 6:25-26
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    25How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

    26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

  • Job 7:11
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    11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • Job 6:2-3
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    2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

    3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

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    21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

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    1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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    32If thou hast any thing to say, answer me: speak, for I desire to justify thee.

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    18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

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    20I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.

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    2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

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    14Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.

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    4Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

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    19If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

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    36Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

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    15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

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    4To whom hast thou uttered words? and whose spirit came from thee?

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    6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

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    15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

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    22Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

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    5O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

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    35Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.

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    4Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.