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 spoke again: “I have heard all this before. What miserable comforters you are! 3Won’t you ever stop blowing hot air? What makes you keep on talking? 4I could say the same things if you were in my place. I could spout off criticism 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 6:6Don’t people complain about unsalted food? Does anyone want the tasteless white of an egg?
• Job 11:2“Shouldn’t someone answer this torrent of words? Is a person proved innocent just by a lot of talking?
• Job 13:5If only you could be silent! That’s the wisest thing you could do.
• Job 19:2“How long will you torture me? How long will you try to crush me with your words?
• Job 26:2“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the weak!
• James 1:19Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.
• Job 13:4As for you, you smear me with lies. As physicians, you are worthless quacks.
• Psalms 69:26To the one you have punished, they add insult to injury; they add to the pain of those you have hurt.
• Philippians 1:16They preach because they love me, for they know I have been appointed 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