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Job 16:4 KJV
Job · chapter 16 · verse 4
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.Job 16:4 · King James Version
Job 16:4 in context
2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
4I 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.
5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- speakdâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- wordsmillâha wordH4405 →
- shakenûwaʻto waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figurativelyH5128 →
- soulnepheshproperly, a breathing creatureH5315 →
- headrôʼshthe head , whether literal or figurativeH7218 →
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Both Job and his friends took the same way that disputants commonly take, which is to undervalue one another's sense, and wisdom, and management. The longer the saw of contention is drawn the hotter it grows; and the beginning of this sort of strife is as the letting forth of water;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-5