Job 16:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I could also speak as ye do It is an easy thing to trample upon those that are down, and to find fault with what those say who are in extremity of pain and affliction. If your soul were in my soul's stead If our conditions were changed, and you were in misery like me, and I at ease like you; I could heap up words against you As you do against me; that is, I could multiply accusations and reproaches against you, and how would you like it? how would you bear it? and shake my head at you In a way of derision, as this phrase is commonly used. Heath renders these clauses interrogatively, thus: If your soul were in my soul's stead, would I accumulate sentences against you? would I shake my head at you? Which rendering gives the verse a very pathetic turn.