New American Standard Bible 1995
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 answered, “I have heard many such things; Sorry comforters are you all. 3Is there no limit to windy words? Or what plagues you that you answer? 4I too could speak like you, If I were in your place. I could compose 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 6:6Can something tasteless be eaten without salt, Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
- Job 11:2“Shall a multitude of words go unanswered, And a talkative man be acquitted?
- Job 13:5O that you would be completely silent, And that it would become your wisdom!
- Job 19:2“How long will you torment me And crush me with words?
- Job 26:2“What a help you are to the weak! How you have saved the arm without strength!
- James 1:19This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger;
- Job 13:4But you smear with lies; You are all worthless physicians.
- Psalms 69:26For they have persecuted him whom You Yourself have smitten, And they tell of the pain of those whom You have wounded.
- Philippians 1:16the latter do it out of 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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