I too could speak like you,
If only [a]I were in your place.
I could compose words against you
And (A)shake my head at you.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 16:4 Lit your soul were in place of my soul

I also could speak like you,
    if you were in my place;
I could make fine speeches against you
    and shake my head(A) at you.

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16 To make their land a (A)desolation,
An object of perpetual (B)hissing;
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And (C)shake his head.

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16 Their land will be an object of horror(A)
    and of lasting scorn;(B)
all who pass by will be appalled(C)
    and will shake their heads.(D)

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