Job 16:4

² I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

³ Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

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.

⁵ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

⁶ Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
KJV: 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.
WEB: 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,
ASV: 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.
DARBY: I also could speak as ye: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join together words against you, and shake my head at you;
BLB: I also could speak as you⁺, if your⁺ soul were in place of my soul; I could join together words against you⁺, and shake at you⁺ with my head.

ÅB: Også jeg kunne tale som dere; om dere var i mitt sted, kunne jeg sette ord sammen mot dere, og jeg kunne riste på hodet over dere;
OTB: Jeg kunne også tale som dere,
hvis dere var i mitt sted.
Jeg kunne holde veltalende taler mot dere
og riste på hodet mot dere.
B1930: Også jeg kunde tale som I; om I var i mitt sted, kunde jeg sette ord sammen mot eder, og jeg kunde ryste på hodet over eder;

Psalms 109:25
I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
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Psalms 22:7
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
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Lamentations 2:15
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?
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2 Kings 19:21
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.
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Jeremiah 18:16
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
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1 Corinthians 12:26
And 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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Zephaniah 2:15
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.
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Matthew 27:39–40
And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
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