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Job 16:4

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Job 16:4

Verse 4 of 22

Scripture focus

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 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Job 16:4

Theological / Devotional

Speak as ye do. There is no difficulty in finding arguments to overwhelm the afflicted. Anyone can talk when he is enjoying the blessings of life. Were the positions reversed, Job could condemn and moralize as effectively as they.

Heap up words. That is, tie words together, reciting one after another old maxims and proverbs as Job’s friends had been so inclined to do.

Shake mine head. A Hebrew mode of condemnation (see Ps. 22:7; Isa. 37:22; Jer. 18:16; Matt. 27:39).

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