English Standard Version
Job 16:2
2"I have heard many such things; 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!
- New King James Version (NKJV)“I have heard many such things; Miserable comforters are you all!
- New Living Translation (NLT)“I have heard all this before. What miserable comforters you are!
Context of Job 16:2
1Then Job answered and said: "I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all. 3Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer? 4I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together 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
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Cross-references for Job 16:2
- Job 6:6Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?
- Job 11:2"Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be judged right?
- Job 13:5Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
- Job 19:2"How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words?
- Job 26:2"How you have helped him who has no power! How you have saved the arm that has no strength!
- James 1:19Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
- Job 13:4As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.
- Psalms 69:26For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.
- Philippians 1:16The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here 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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