Job 16:4

I could heap up words Rather, I could compose words. By "composing" or joining together words Job means making formal, artificial and heartless speeches; cf. the string of traditional sayings put together by Eliphaz, ch. Job 15:20 seq.

shake mine head at you "A gesture of astonishment, as much as to say -Eh! I would not have thought that the pious man, as it appears from his misfortunes, had been so great a sinner" " (Hitzig), cf. Psalms 22:7; Isaiah 37:22.