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 replied. This is what he said: ‘I have heard all these things before. You are not making my troubles any better. You are making them worse! 3Please stop speaking useless words. Why do you talk to me like that? 4If you were suffering like I am, I could say the same things to you. I could speak for a long time about the wrong things that you have done. I could shake my head and laugh 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 6:6You cannot enjoy food that has no salt in it. The white part of an egg is not nice to eat on its own.
• Job 11:2‘Someone must answer all these words that you have spoken. You have talked a lot, but that does not mean that you are right.
• Job 13:5It would be better if you said nothing. That would be a wise thing for you to do.
• Job 19:2‘Please stop speaking to me like that! Your words continue to make me suffer.
• Job 26:2‘Do not think that you have helped me, a weak and helpless man. Nothing that you have said makes me feel stronger.
• James 1:19Understand this, my Christian friends: We must all be careful to listen. We should not be too quick to speak. We should not get angry quickly.
• Job 13:4What you say about me is only lies. You would be useless as doctors.
• Psalms 69:26Do this, because they chase after the people that you have already punished. They talk about the pain of the people that you have hurt.
• Philippians 1:16They tell people about him because they love me. They know that God has put me here in this prison. And he wants me to show people that the good news is true.

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