Job 16:2
1 Then Job answered and said,
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
- KJV
- I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
- WEB
- “I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
- ASV
- I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.
- DARBY
- I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.
- BLB
- “I have heard many such things, all of you⁺ comforters of trouble.
- ÅB
- Jeg har hørt meget som dette; dere er plagsomme trøstere alle sammen.
- OTB
- "Jeg har hørt mye av dette;
dere er alle ineffektive trøstere! - B1930
- Jeg har hørt meget som dette; I er plagsomme trøstere alle sammen.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 13:4–5
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Read in contextJames 1:19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Read in contextPsalms 69:26
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Read in contextPhilippians 1:16
The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
Read in contextJob 6:6
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Read in contextJob 19:2–3
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Read in contextJob 6:25
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Read in contextJob 11:2–3
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
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