Job 16:1

Then Job answered, and said:

Douay-Rheims 1899

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Then Job answered and said,

In Context

2I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters.

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Matthew Henry on Job 16:1

This chapter begins Job's reply to that discourse of Eliphaz which we had in the foregoing chapter; it is but the second part of the same song of lamentation with which he had before bemoaned himself, and is set to the same melancholy tune. I. He upbraids his friends with their unkind usage of him, ver. 1-5 . II. He represents his own case as very deplorable upon all accounts, ver. 6-16 . III. He still holds fast his integrity, concerning which he appeals to God's righteous judgment from the unrighteous censures… Read the whole commentary →

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