King James Version
Then Job answered and said,(Job 16:1)
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.(Job 16:2)
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?(Job 16:3)
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.
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.(Job 16:5)
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?(Job 16:6)
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.(Job 16:7)

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Job 16:4 - Cross Reference

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. (2 Kings 19:21)
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him? (Ecclesiastes 10:14)
I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads. (Psalm 109:25)
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty. (Job 6:14)
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. (Matthew 7:12)
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. (1 Corinthians 12:26)
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. (Zephaniah 2:15)
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. (Romans 12:15)
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? (Lamentations 2:15)
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. (Psalm 44:14)
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? (Job 11:2)
And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, (Matthew 27:39)
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. (Jeremiah 18:16)
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. (Job 35:16)
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, (Psalm 22:7)
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! (Job 6:2)
In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise. (Proverbs 10:19)