Berean Standard Bible
Job 16:2
2“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
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: “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all. 3Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying? 4I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.
Read all of Job 16Job 16:2 word by word
שָׁמַ֣עְתִּי כְאֵ֣לֶּה רַבּ֑וֹת מְנַחֲמֵ֖י עָמָ֣ל כֻּלְּכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 16:2
- Job 6:6Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg?
- Job 11:2“Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?
- Job 13:5If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom!
- Job 19:2“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
- Job 26:2“How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
- James 1:19My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger,
- Job 13:4You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
- Psalms 69:26For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.
- Philippians 1:16The latter do so in love, knowing that I am appointed 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
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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
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