Job 16:2
Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
In Context
1And Job made answer and said,
3May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
Cross References
Job 6:6Will a man take food which has no taste without salt? or is there any taste in the soft substance of purslain?
Job 11:2Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk?
Job 19:2How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?
Job 26:2How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!
Philippians 1:16These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news:
Matthew Henry on Job 16:2-6
The Reply of Job to Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. 3 Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you. 5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief. Both Job and his friends took the same way that disputants commonly… Read the whole commentary →