Job 16:2

Job 16:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
• New International Version (NIV)“I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you!
• English Standard Version (ESV)"I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“I have heard many such things; Miserable comforters are you all!

Context of Job 16:2

1Then Job answered and said, “I have heard many such things; Wearisome and miserable comforters are you all. 3Is there no end to [your futile] words of wind? Or what plagues you [so much] that you [so boldly] answer [me like this]? 4I also could speak like you, If you were in my place; I could compose and join words together against you And shake my head at you.

Job 16:2 word by word

שָׁמַ֣עְתִּי כְאֵ֣לֶּה רַבּ֑וֹת מְנַחֲמֵ֖י עָמָ֣ל כֻּלְּכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• I have heardשָׁמַעshâma‛ · to hear: hearH8085
• many such thingsרַבrab · manyH7227
• miserableעָמָל‛âmâl · troubleH5999
• comfortersנָחַםnâcham · to be sorry: comfortH5162

Cross-references for Job 16:2

• Job 6:6Can something that has no taste to it be eaten without salt? Or is there any flavor in the white of an egg?
• Job 11:2“Shall a multitude of words not be answered? And should a talkative man [making such a long-winded defense] be acquitted?
• Job 13:5Oh, that you would be completely silent, And that silence would be your wisdom!
• Job 19:2“How long will you torment and exasperate me And crush me with words?
• Job 26:2“What a help you are to the weak (powerless)! How you have saved the arm that is without strength!
• James 1:19Understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Let everyone be quick to hear [be a careful, thoughtful listener], slow to speak [a speaker of carefully chosen words and], slow to anger [patient, reflective, forgiving];
• Job 13:4But you smear me with lies [you defame my character most untruthfully]; You are all worthless physicians and have no remedy to offer.
• Psalms 69:26For they have persecuted him whom You have struck, And they tell of the pain of those whom You have pierced and wounded.
• Philippians 1:16The latter [preach Christ] out of love, because they know that I have been put here [by God on purpose] for the defense of the gospel;

Commentaries on Job 16:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2I have heard many such things - These sayings of the ancients are not strange to me; but they do not apply to my case: ye see me in affliction; ye should endeavor to console me. This ye do not; and yet ye pretend to do it! Miserable comforters are ye all.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Many such things - That is, either things fitted to provoke and irritate, or sentiments that are common-place. There was nothing new in what they said, and nothing to the purpose. Miserable comforters - Compare Job 13:4. They had come professedly to condole with him. Now all that they said was adapted only to irritate, and to deepen his distress. He was disappointed; and he was deeply wounded and grieved.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-22SECOND SERIES. 2. (Job 13:4).Read the comment

Topics related to Job 16:2

• Friendship
• Persecution

In the dictionaries

• Comforter
• Foul
• Plead
• Scorn
• Paraclete

Commentaries on Job 16

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary