Job 16:2
“I have heard many such things; 1 you are all miserable comforters. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
In Context
1Then Job answered and said, 1
3Will useless words ever have an end? 1 What is wrong with you that you answer like this? 1
Cross References
Job 6:6Can that which has no taste be eaten without salt? 1 Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? 1
Job 11:2“Should not such a multitude of words be answered? 1 Should this man, so full of talk, be believed? 1
Job 19:2“How long will you make me suffer 1 and break me into pieces with words? 1
Job 26:2“How you have helped one who has no power! 1 How you have saved the arm that has no strength! 1
Philippians 1:16The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here 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 →