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Job 16:4
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Job 16:4
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.
4I also could speake as yee doe: if your soule were in my soules stead, I could heape vp words against you, and shake mine head at you.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 16:4
To utter words; to say, declare, address, or communicate by speech.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Place or position; in the stead of means in the place of.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
A pile or mass; to collect or pile up.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Spoken or written expressions; sayings, messages, commands, promises, or accounts.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
To move rapidly back and forth; to cause to tremble, loosen, overthrow, or become unsettled.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The upper part of the body; a chief, source, summit, or leading position.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study25I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
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Open the full verse study7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
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Open the full verse study15All 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?
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Open the full verse study21This 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.
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Open the full verse study16To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
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Open the full verse study26And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
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Open the full verse study14A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?
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Open the full verse study2Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
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Open the full verse study16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
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Open the full verse study14To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
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Open the full verse study2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
5Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
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Open the full verse study39¶ And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
40And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
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Open the full verse study12Therefore 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.
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Open the full verse study19In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
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Open the full verse study14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
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Open the full verse study15Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
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Open the full verse study15This 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.
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