Job 16:2
I have oft heard such things; all ye be heavy comforters (or the only comfort that all of ye offer is more torment).
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
In Context
1Forsooth Job answered, and said,
Cross References
Job 6:6Either whether a thing unsavory may be eaten, which is not made savory by salt? (Or can an unsavory thing be eaten, which is not first made savory with salt?) Either whether any man may taste a thing, which (once) tasted bringeth death? For why to an hungry soul, yea, bitter things seem to be sweet;
Job 11:2Whether he, that speaketh many things, shall not also hear? either a man full of words shall be made just? (Shall he, who saith many things, not also listen? or is a man so full of words always right, or correct?)
Job 19:2How long torment ye my soul, and all-break me with words?
Job 26:2Whose helper art thou? whether of the feeble, and sustainest the arm of him, which is not strong? (Whose helper art thou? of the feeble? and sustainest thou the arm of him, who is not strong?)
Philippians 1:16and some of charity, witting that I am put in the defence of the gospel. (and some out of love, knowing that I am put in the defence of the Gospel or the Good News.)
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 →