Job 16:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

גַּ֤ם ׀ אָנֹכִי֮ כָּכֶ֢ם אֲדַ֫בֵּ֥רָה ל֤וּ־יֵ֪שׁ נַפְשְׁכֶ֡ם תַּ֤חַת נַפְשִׁ֗י אַחְבִּ֣ירָה עֲלֵיכֶ֣ם בְּמִלִּ֑ים וְאָנִ֥יעָה עֲ֝לֵיכֶ֗ם בְּמ֣וֹ רֹאשִֽׁי׃

Transliteration

gam ʾānōkî kākêm ʾădabbērāh lû-yēš napškem taḥat napšî ʾaḥbîrāh ʿălêkem bə-millîm wə-ʾānîʿāh ʿălêkem bəmô rōʾšî

Grammar Details

• *gam*: adverb - also, moreover
• *ʾānōkî*: pronoun 1st singular - I
• *kākêm*: preposition + 2nd masculine plural suffix - like you
• *ʾădabbērāh*: Piel imperfect 1st singular cohortative - I would speak
• *lû-yēš*: conditional particle + existential - if there were
• *napškem*: noun feminine singular + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your soul
• *taḥat*: preposition - under, instead of
• *napšî*: noun feminine singular + 1st singular suffix - my soul
• *ʾaḥbîrāh*: Hiphil imperfect 1st singular cohortative - I would join
• *ʿălêkem*: preposition + 2nd masculine plural suffix - against you
• *bə-millîm*: preposition + noun feminine plural - with words
• *wə-ʾānîʿāh*: conjunction + Hiphil imperfect 1st singular cohortative - and I would shake
• *bəmô*: preposition - with
• *rōʾšî*: noun masculine singular + 1st singular suffix - my head

Word Meanings

• *ʾădabbērāh*: to speak, declare
• *napškem*: soul, self, life, being, desire
• *napšî*: soul, self, life, being, desire
• *ʾaḥbîrāh*: to join, unite, combine, heap up
• *millîm*: words, speech
• *ʾānîʿāh*: to waver, shake, wag

Referenced Verses

• 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 clap 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 Job 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{H8799)} 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.