Job 16:4
Verse 4 of 22. The 16th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.
1Then Job answered and said,
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?
7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
Job 16:4 in the World English Bible
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,Read Job 16:4 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Job 16:4
This is a cutting reproof, and very affecting, v. 4, 5. (1.) He desires his friends, in imagination, for a little while, to change conditions with him, to put their souls in his soul's stead, to suppose themselves in misery like him and him at ease like them. This was no absurd or foreign supposition, but what might quickly become true in fact.
Read Matthew Henry on Job 16:1–5: The Reply of Job to Eliphaz. (b. c. 1520.)
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