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.
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I became also a reproach unto them: {when} they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, {saying}, {shoot...: Heb. open}
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? {by: Heb. by the way}
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
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.
To make their land desolate, {and} a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
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.
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? {full...: Heb. of lips}
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
This {is} the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I {am}, and {there is} none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, {and} wag his hand.
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips {is} wise.
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! {laid: Heb. lifted up}
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
To him that is afflicted pity {should be shewed} from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. {is afflicted: Heb. melteth}
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him? {is full...: Heb. multiplieth words}
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.
My friends scorn me: {but} mine eye poureth out {tears} unto God. {scorn me: Heb. are my scorners}
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.
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, {and} with the contempt of the proud.
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} power; but they had no comforter. {side: Heb. hand}
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
I became also a reproach unto them: {when} they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
He that is ready to slip with {his} feet {is as} a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
How hast thou helped {him that is} without power? {how} savest thou the arm {that hath} no strength?
For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy. {skippedst...: or, movedst thyself}
And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, {saying}, {shoot...: Heb. open}
The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: