Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

If you were in my place I could also talk like you.
I could string words together against you
and shake my head at you.

New American Standard Bible

“I too could speak like you,
If I were in your place.
I could compose words against you
And shake my head at you.

King James 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.

International Standard Version

"I could also talk like you if only you were in my place! Then I would put together an argument against you. I would shake my head at you

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“I also could speak like you,
If you were in my place;
I could compose and join words together against you
And shake my head at you.

Bible in Basic English

It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:

Darby Translation

I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;

Julia Smith Translation

Also I will speak as you: if it is your soul instead of my soul, I will join together with words against you, and shake my head against you upon it

King James 2000

I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul's place, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

I myself also could talk as you, if {you were in my place}; I could join against you with words, and I could shake at you with my head.

Modern King James verseion

I also could speak as you do; if your soul were in my soul's place. I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I could speak as ye do also. But would God, that your soul were in my soul's stead: then should I heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

NET Bible

I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could pile up words against you and I could shake my head at you.

New Heart English Bible

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,

The Emphasized Bible

I also, like you, could speak, - If your soul were in the place of my soul, I could string together words against you, and could therewith shake over you my head.

Webster

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 my head at you.

World English Bible

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,

Youngs Literal Translation

I also, like you, might speak, If your soul were in my soul's stead. I might join against you with words, And nod at you with my head.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1142

as ye do if
לוּ לא לוּא 
Luw' 
if, would God, O that, Oh, would it might be, if haply, peradventure, Oh that, pray thee, Though, would
Usage: 22

נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

ישׁ 
Yesh 
is, be, have, there,
Usage: 135

in my soul's
נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

מלּה מלּה 
Millah 
Usage: 38

נוּע 
Nuwa` 
Usage: 40

ראשׁ 
Ro'sh 
Usage: 598

at
בּמו 
B@mow 
with, in, into, through, for, at, non translated variant
Usage: 8

Context Readings

Job's Fifth Speech

3 Is there no end to your empty words?
What provokes you that you continue testifying?
4 If you were in my place I could also talk like you.
I could string words together against you
and shake my head at you.
5 Instead, I would encourage you with my mouth,
and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.

Cross References

Psalm 22:7

Everyone who sees me mocks me;
they sneer and shake their heads:

Psalm 109:25

I have become an object of ridicule to my accusers;
when they see me, they shake their heads in scorn.

Lamentations 2:15

ס SamekAll who pass by
scornfully clap their hands at you.
They mock and shake their heads
at Daughter Jerusalem:
Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,
the joy of the whole earth?

2 Kings 19:21

This is the word the Lord has spoken against him:

Virgin Daughter Zion
despises you and scorns you:
Daughter Jerusalem
shakes her head behind your back.

Jeremiah 18:16

They have made their land a horror,
a perpetual object of scorn;
everyone who passes by it will be horrified
and shake his head.

Job 6:2-5

If only my grief could be weighed
and my devastation placed with it in the scales.

Job 6:14

A despairing man should receive loyalty from his friends,
even if he abandons the fear of the Almighty.

Job 11:2

Should this stream of words go unanswered
and such a talker be acquitted?

Job 35:16

Job opens his mouth in vain
and multiplies words without knowledge.

Psalm 44:14

You make us a joke among the nations,
a laughingstock among the peoples.

Proverbs 10:19

When there are many words, sin is unavoidable,
but the one who controls his lips is wise.

Ecclesiastes 10:14

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

Zephaniah 2:15

This is the self-assured city
that lives in security,
that thinks to herself:
I exist, and there is no one else.
What a desolation she has become,
a place for wild animals to lie down!
Everyone who passes by her
jeers and shakes his fist.

Matthew 7:12

Therefore, whatever you want others to do for you, do also the same for them—this is the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 27:39-40

Those who passed by were yelling insults at Him, shaking their heads

Romans 12:15

Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.

1 Corinthians 12:26

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

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