New Revised Standard Version
I also could talk as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you.

Contemporary English Version
If I were in your place, it would be easy to criticize or to give advice.

New American Bible
I also could talk as you do, were you in my place. I could declaim over you, or wag my head at you;

Douay-Rheims Bible
I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.

I also could speak like you: and would God your soul were for my soul.

if your soul

Job 6:2-5,14 O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance. . . .

Matthew 7:12 All things therefore whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.

Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that rejoice: weep with them that weep.

1 Corinthians 12:26 And if one member suffer any thing, all the members suffer with it: or if one member glory, all the members rejoice with it.

up words

Job 11:2 Shall not he that speaketh much, hear also? or shall a man full of talk be justified?

Job 35:16 Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words without knowledge.

Proverbs 10:19 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: but the heart of the wicked is nothing worth.

Ecclesiastes 10:14 A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been before him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

shake mine

2 Kings 19:21 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin, the daughter of Sion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the daughter of Jerusalem hath wagged her head behind thy back.

Psalm 22:7 All they that saw me have laughed me to scorn: they have spoken with the lips, and wagged the head.

Psalm 44:14 Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.

Psalm 109:25 And I am become a reproach to them: they saw me and they shaked their heads.

Jeremiah 18:16 That their land might be given up to desolation, and to a perpetual hissing: every one that shall pass by it, shall be astonished, and wag his head.

Lamentations 2:15 Samech. All they that passed by the way have clapped their hands at thee: they have hissed, and wagged their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying: Is this the city of perfect beauty, the joy of all the earth?

Matthew 27:39,40 And they that passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, . . .