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Is there a limit to windy words?
What provokes you that you answer?
I myself[a] also could talk as you,
if you were in my place;[b]
I could join against you with words,
and I could shake at you with my head.
I could[c] encourage you with my mouth,
and the solace of my lips would[d] ease the pain.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:4 Emphatic personal pronoun;
  2. Job 16:4 Literally “there is your soul in place of my soul”
  3. Job 16:5 Or “would”
  4. Job 16:5 Or “should”

Will your long-winded speeches never end?(A)
    What ails you that you keep on arguing?(B)
I also could speak like you,
    if you were in my place;
I could make fine speeches against you
    and shake my head(C) at you.
But my mouth would encourage you;
    comfort(D) from my lips would bring you relief.(E)

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