Job 16:2
I have often heard such things; you are all aggravating comforters.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
In Context
3Will there be no end to windy words? Or is it at all a burden to you, if you speak?
Cross References
Job 6:6Or can one eat bland food, which is not seasoned with salt? Or can anyone taste that which, if tasted, causes death?
Job 11:2Will he who speaks much, not also listen? Or will a talkative man be justified?
Job 19:2How long will you afflict my soul and wear me down with words?
Job 26:2Whose assistant are you? Is he weak-minded? And do you sustain the arm of him that is not strong?
Philippians 1:16Some act out of charity, knowing that I have been appointed for the defense of the Gospel.
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 →