Verse 4
Job 16:4
World English Bible
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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,
Original Language Text
hebrew
גַּ֤ם אָנֹכִי֮ כָּ/כֶ֪ם אֲדַ֫בֵּ֥רָה ל֤וּ יֵ֪שׁ נַפְשְׁ/כֶ֡ם תַּ֤חַת נַפְשִׁ֗/י אַחְבִּ֣ירָה עֲלֵי/כֶ֣ם בְּ/מִלִּ֑ים וְ/אָנִ֥יעָה עֲ֝לֵי/כֶ֗ם בְּמ֣וֹ רֹאשִֽׁ/י
English Translation
I also will speak to you if your soul is troubled; I will weigh heavily upon you with words, and I will be heavy upon you with my head.
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Chapter 16 Context
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Then Job answered,
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“I have heard many such things.
You are all miserable comforters!
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Shall vain words have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?
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I also could speak as you do.
If your soul were in my soul’s place,
I could join words together agai...
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but I would strengthen you with my mouth.
The solace of my lips would relieve you.
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“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided.
Though I forbear, what am I eased?
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But now, God (Elohim), you have surely worn me out.
You have made desolate all my company.
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You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me.
My leanness rises up against me.
It testifie...
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He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me.
He has gnashed on me with his teeth.
My adversary sh...
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They have gaped on me with their mouth.
They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully.
They gather...
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God (Elohim) delivers me to the ungodly,
and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
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12
I was at ease, and he broke me apart.
Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces.
He...
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His archers surround me.
He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare.
He pours out my gall on the...
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He breaks me with breach on breach.
He runs on me like a giant.
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I have sewed sackcloth on my skin,
and have thrust my horn in the dust.
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My face is red with weeping.
Deep darkness is on my eyelids.
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17
Although there is no violence in my hands,
and my prayer is pure.
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“Earth, don’t cover my blood.
Let my cry have no place to rest.
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Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven.
He who vouches for me is on high.
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My friends scoff at me.
My eyes pour out tears to God (Elohim),
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that he would maintain the right of a man with God (Elohim),
of a son of man with his neighbor!
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For when a few years have come,
I shall go the way of no return.
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