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 ⌞to his friends⌟, “I have heard many things like this before. You are all pathetic at comforting me. 3Will ⌞your⌟ long-winded speeches never end? What disturbs you that you keep on answering ⌞me⌟? 4I, too, could speak like you if we could trade places. I could string 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 6:6Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there any flavor in the white of an egg?
• Job 11:2“Shouldn’t someone answer this flood of words? Should a good public speaker be acquitted?
• Job 13:5I wish you would keep silent. For you, that would be wisdom.
• Job 19:2“How long will you torment me and depress me with words?
• Job 26:2“You have helped the person who has no power and saved the arm that isn’t strong.
• James 1:19Remember this, my dear brothers and sisters: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and should not get angry easily.
• Job 13:4But you are smearing me with lies. All of you are worthless physicians.
• Psalms 69:26They persecute the one you have struck, and they talk about the pain of those you have wounded.
• Philippians 1:16Those who tell the message about Christ out of love know that God has put me here to defend the Good News.

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