Job 16:4

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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.

“Oh that my grief were actually weighed
And laid in the balances together with my calamity!

“In everything, therefore, treat people the same way you want them to treat you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.

And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

“Shall a multitude of words go unanswered,
And a talkative man be acquitted?

So Job opens his mouth emptily;
He multiplies words without knowledge.”

When there are many words, transgression is unavoidable,
But he who restrains his lips is wise.

Yet the fool multiplies words. No man knows what will happen, and who can tell him what will come after him?

This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him:
‘She has despised you and mocked you,

The virgin daughter of Zion;

She has shaken her head behind you,
The daughter of Jerusalem!

All who see me

sneer at me;

They separate with the lip, they wag the head, saying,

You make us a byword among the nations,
A

laughingstock among the peoples.

I also have become a reproach to them;
When they see me, they wag their head.

To make their land a desolation,
An object of perpetual hissing;
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And shake his head.

All who pass along the way

Clap their hands in derision at you;

They hiss and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem,
“Is this the city of which they said,
‘The perfection of beauty,

A joy to all the earth’?”

And those passing by were hurling abuse at Him, wagging their heads