Job 16:2
“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
World English Bible
In The King James Version
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
In Context
3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Cross References
Job 6:6Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Job 11:2“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?
Job 19:2“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
Job 26:2“How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength!
Philippians 1:16The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;
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 →