Job 16:2

I have heard many things such as these: troublesome comforters are ye all.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

In Context

1Then answered Job, and said,

3Shall there be any end to words of wind? or what compelleth thee that thou shouldst answer?

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Cross References

Job 6:6Is ever tasteless food eaten without salt? or is there any flavor in the white of an egg?

Job 11:2Shall a multitude of words not be answered? and is it so that a man full of talk shall be deemed in the right?

Job 19:2How long will ye grieve my soul, and crush me with words?

Job 26:2What assistance hast thou given to the powerless? [how] hast thou helped the arm without strength?

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 →

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