Job 16:4

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Summary

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.

If your soul

Up words

Shake mine

Matthew 27:39

Bible References

If your soul

If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales!

Do for others the same as you would have them to do for you. That is the meaning of the Law and the Prophets.

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

When one member suffers all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

Up words

Are all these words to go unanswered? Is this talker to be vindicated?

Job opens his mouth in empty talk. He multiplies words without knowledge.

Sin does not hide from a multitude of words. The wise controls his lips.

A fool also is full of words. A man cannot predict what will be and what will be after him. Who can tell him?

Shake mine

This is Jehovah's message to Sennacherib: 'My people, the virgin daughter of Zion, despise you and laugh at you. My people in Jerusalem shake their heads behind your back.

All who see me laugh at me. Insults pour from their mouths. They shake their heads and say:

You made our defeat a proverb among the nations so that people shake their heads at us.

I have become the victim of my enemies' insults. They look at me and shake their heads.

They make their land desolation. It becomes an object of perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and shake his head.

All who go by make a noise with their hands at you. They make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem. They say: Is this the town that was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?

People passing by spoke evil abuse to him. They wagged their heads