Job 16:4 · KJV
"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."
King James Version
What does Job 16:4 mean? →Passage 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?
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