Job 16:4 - Exposition

I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you. It is only too easy to heap up rhetorical declamation against an unfortunate sufferer, whose physical and mental agonies absorb almost his whole attention. If you were in my place and condition, and I in yours, I could moralize in your tone and spirit for hours. And shake my head at you . A Hebrew mode of expressing condemnation of a man's conduct (see Psalms 22:7 ; Isaiah 37:22 ; Jeremiah 18:16 ; Matthew 27:39 , etc.).