Catholic Public Domain Version
"I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul. "
— Job 16:4, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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.”
“I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you. ”
“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,”
“I also could speak like you, if you were in my place; I could pile up words against you and I could shake my head at you.”
“I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.”
“It would not be hard for me to say such things if your souls were in my soul's place; joining words together against you, and shaking my head at you:”
“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.”
Then Job, answering, said:
I have often heard such things; you are all aggravating comforters.
Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?
I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul.
I would also comfort you with speeches and would wag my head over you.
I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as if being lenient to you.
But what can I do? When I am speaking, my grief will not be quiet; and if I am quiet, it will not withdraw from me.