Job 16:2

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

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1Then Job answered and said,

3Shall vain words have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

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Cross References

Job 6:6Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Job 11:2Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?

Job 19:2How long will ye vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?

Job 26:2How hast thou helped him that is without power! how hast thou saved the arm that hath no strength!

Philippians 1:16the one do it of love, knowing that I am set for the defence 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 →

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