Job 16:2
“I've heard all this before. You are comforters who just cause trouble!
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
In Context
3Will your windy speeches never cease? What's bothering you that you have to answer me?
Cross References
Job 6:6Can something that's tasteless be eaten without salt? Is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Job 11:2“So many words should be answered, shouldn't they? Or is a person proved right by doing a lot of talking?
Job 19:2“How long will you go on tormenting me? How long will you go on crushing me with words?
Job 26:2“How helpful you have been to this feeble man that I am. How supportive you have been to the weak.
Philippians 1:16They act out of love, because they know that I'm meant to be here to defend 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 →