Job 16:2
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 16 connects to 10 cross-references. Job calls his friends 'miserable comforters' and says he could speak as they do if their positions were reversed. He describes God as his adversary who has handed him over to the ungodly. Yet amid despair he appeals to his …
Other Translations
I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.
I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters <FI>are<Fi> ye all.
Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
Cross References
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?