King James Version
Job 16:2
Job 16:2 in other versions
- 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!
- 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 ye all. 3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? 4I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine 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 6:6Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
- Job 11:2Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?
- Job 13:5O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
- Job 19:2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
- Job 26:2How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?
- James 1:19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
- Job 13:4But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
- Psalms 69:26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
- Philippians 1:16The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
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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Notes
- 1. Job 16:2 miserable: or, troublesome ↩
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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