“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,”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Job 16 contains 22 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.