Job 16:4

World English Bible (2000)

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

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  • Ps 22:7 : 7 All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
  • Ps 109:25 : 25 I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
  • Lam 2:15 : 15 All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
  • Jer 18:16 : 16 to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
  • 2 Kgs 19:21 : 21 This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: "The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
  • Job 6:2-5 : 2 "Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash. 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me. 5 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?
  • Job 6:14 : 14 "To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
  • Job 11:2 : 2 "Shouldn't the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?
  • Job 35:16 : 16 Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge."
  • Prov 10:19 : 19 In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.
  • Eccl 10:14 : 14 A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?
  • Ps 44:14 : 14 You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
  • Zeph 2:15 : 15 This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.
  • Matt 7:12 : 12 Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
  • Matt 27:39-40 : 39 Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, 40 and saying, "You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!"
  • Rom 12:15 : 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.
  • 1 Cor 12:26 : 26 When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

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    5 but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

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

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  • Job 21:3-4
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    5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;

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    10 Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

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  • Job 6:2-3
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    21 that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

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