Job 16:2
“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
In Context
3Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?
Cross References
Job 6:6Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg ?
Job 11:2“Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?
Job 19:2“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
Job 26:2“How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
Philippians 1:16The latter do so in love, knowing that I am 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 →