Job 16:2
“I have heard many such things, || Miserable comforters [are] you all.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
In Context
3Is there an end to words of wind? Or what emboldens you that you answer?
Cross References
Job 6:6Is an insipid thing eaten without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?
Job 11:2“Is a multitude of words not answered? And is a man of lips justified?
Job 19:2“Until when do you afflict my soul, || And bruise me with words?
Job 26:2“How you have helped the powerless, || Saved an arm not strong!
Philippians 1:16one, indeed, of rivalry proclaims the Christ, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,
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 →