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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.

KJV

Poteram et ego similia vestri loqui, atque utinam esset anima vestra pro anima mea :

Vulgate

κἀγὼ καθ’ ὑμᾶς λαλήσω. εἰ ὑπέκειτό γε ἡ ψυχὴ ὑμῶν ἀντὶ τῆς ἐμῆς,

LXX

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.

ASV

גַּ֤ם אָנֹכִי֮ כָּ/כֶ֪ם אֲדַ֫בֵּ֥רָה ל֤וּ יֵ֪שׁ נַפְשְׁ/כֶ֡ם תַּ֤חַת נַפְשִׁ֗/י אַחְבִּ֣ירָה עֲלֵי/כֶ֣ם בְּ/מִלִּ֑ים וְ/אָנִ֥יעָה עֲ֝לֵי/כֶ֗ם בְּמ֣וֹ רֹאשִֽׁ/י

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אָנֹכִ֖י
'nky
pronoun · 356×
בְּמוֹ
bmv
noun · 11×
גַּם
gm
adverb · 764×
ו
v
noun · 505×
חֹֽבְרֹ֔ת
chbrt
verb · 29×
י
y
noun · 38×
י
y
noun · 752×
יְדַבֵּ֥ר
ydbr
verb · 1134×
יֶשׁ
ysh
pronoun · 137×
ל֥וּ
lv
conjunction · 25×
נ֖וּעַ
nv'
verb · 42×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
רֹ֣אשׁ
r'sh
noun · 593×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Kgs 19:21 — This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
  • 2Kgs 19:21 — This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
  • Eccl 4:1 — So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was
  • Isa 37:22 — This is the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
  • Jer 18:16 — To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
  • Job 16:20 — My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
  • Lam 2:15 — All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
  • Matt 7:12 — Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
  • Ps 22:7 — All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
  • Ps 44:14 — Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
  • Ps 109:25 — I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
  • Ps 123:4 — Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
  • Rom 12:15 — Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.