King James Version (KJV)

Job 16:4

“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.”

Verse in context — Job 16

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all.

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

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.

[But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage [your grief].

Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased?

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