Job 16:2

I have heard many such things: 1 Poor comforters are ye all. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1But Job answered and said, 1

3What! is there any reason in vain words? 1 Or what will hinder thee from answering? 1

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Cross References

Job 6:6Shall bread be eaten without salt? 1 Or again, is there taste in empty words? 1

Job 11:2He that speaks much, should also hear on the other side: 1 Or does the fluent speaker think himself to be righteous? 1 Blessed is the short-lived offspring of woman. 1

Job 19:2How long will ye vex my soul, 1 And destroy me with words? 1 Only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus. 1

Job 26:2To whom dost thou attach thyself, or whom art thou going to assist? 1 Is it not he that has much strength, and he who has a strong arm? 1

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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