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Job 16:2
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I have heard many things like these.You are all miserable comforters.
"I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you all!
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
"I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
"I have heard many things like these. You are all painful comforters!
"I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!
"I have heard many such things; Wearisome and miserable comforters are you all.
"I have heard many things like these; Miserable comforters are you all!
"I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you all!
I haue oft times heard such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
"I have heard many such things;Troublesome comforters are you all.
"I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
"I have heard this stuff so often! Such sorry comforters, all of you!
I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.
"I have heard all these things before. You men give me trouble, not comfort.
I have heard many such things; wicked comforters are you all.
"I have heard many things like these; all of you are miserable comforters.
I have heard many such things . You are all miserable comforters.
I haue oft tymes herde soch thinges. Miserable geuers of comforte are ye, all the sorte of you.
I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.
Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
I have heard many such things; sorry comforters are ye all.
I haue heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
I haue oft times heard such thinges: miserable geuers of comfort are ye all the sort of you.
I have heard many such things: poor comforters are ye all.
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Y `herde ofte siche thingis; alle ye ben heuy coumfortouris.
I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are you all.
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all.
"I have heard many such things; Miserable comforters are you all!
"I have heard all this before. What miserable comforters you are!
"I have heard many such things. All of you bring trouble instead of comfort.
"I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
I have heard many such things, Wearisome comforters, are ye all!
I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters.
"I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters [are] ye all.
"I have heard many such things; Sorry comforters are you all.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
heard: Job 6:6, Job 6:25, Job 11:2, Job 11:3, Job 13:5, Job 19:2, Job 19:3, Job 26:2, Job 26:3, James 1:19
miserable: or, troublesome, Job 13:4, Psalms 69:26, Philippians 1:16
Reciprocal: Esther 6:13 - but shalt surely Job 2:11 - to comfort Job 15:3 - he reason Job 18:2 - How long Job 21:2 - let this be Job 21:34 - comfort Psalms 69:20 - comforters Psalms 108:12 - for vain Matthew 27:4 - see
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"It was the woman you put here with me," the man said. "She gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it."
The Lord said to the man, "You listened to your wife and ate fruit from that tree. And so, the ground will be under a curse because of what you did. As long as you live, you will have to struggle to grow enough food.
Abram's wife Sarai had not been able to have any children. But she owned a young Egyptian slave woman named Hagar,
and Sarai said to Abram, "The Lord has not given me any children. Sleep with my slave, and if she has a child, it will be mine." Abram agreed,
Later, when Hagar knew she was going to have a baby, she became proud and was hateful to Sarai.
Abram said, "All right! She's your slave, and you can do whatever you want with her." But Sarai began treating Hagar so harshly that she finally ran away.
The angel said, "Go back to Sarai and be her slave.
I will give you a son, who will be called Ishmael, because I have heard your cry for help. And later I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all.
I will bless her, and you will have a son by her. She will become the mother of nations, and some of her descendants will even be kings.
One of the guests was the Lord , and he said, "I'll come back about this time next year, and when I do, Sarah will already have a son." Sarah was behind Abraham, listening at the entrance to the tent.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I have heard many such things,.... As those Eliphaz has been discoursing of, concerning the punishment of wicked men; many instances of this kind had been reported to him from his preceptors, and from his parents, and which they had had from theirs, as well as Eliphaz had from his; and he had heard these things, or such like, told "many times" from one to another, as Ben Gersom interprets it; or "frequently", as the Vulgate Latin version, yea, he had heard them his friends say many things of this kind; so that there was nothing new delivered, nothing but what was "crambe millies cocta", the same thing over and over again; insomuch that it was not only needless and useless, but nauseous and disagreeable, and was far from carrying any conviction with it, or tracing weight and influence upon him; that he only gave it the hearing, and that was all, and scarce with any patience, it being altogether inapplicable to him: that wicked men were punished for their sins, he did not deny; and that good men were also afflicted, was a very plain case; and that neither good nor hatred, or an interest in the favour of God or not, were not known by these things; nor could any such conclusion be fairly drawn, that because Job was afflicted, that therefore he was a bad man:
miserable comforters [are] ye all; his friends came to comfort him, and no doubt were sincere in their intentions; they took methods, as they thought, proper to answer such an end; and were so sanguine as to think their consolations were the consolations of God, according to his will; and bore hard upon Job for seeming to slight them, Job 15:11; to which Job here may have respect; but they were so far from administering divine consolation, that they were none at all, and worse than none; instead of yielding comfort, what they said added to his trouble and affliction; they were, as it may be rendered, "comforters of trouble", or "troublesome comforters" k, which is what rhetoricians call an oxymoron; what they said, instead of relieving him, laid weights and heavy pressures upon him he could not bear; by suggesting his afflictions were for some enormous crime and secret sin that he lived in the commission of; and that he was no other than an hypocrite: and unless he repented and reformed, he could not expect it would be better with him; and this was the sentiment of them one and all: so to persons under a sense of sin, and distressed about the salvation of their souls, legal preachers are miserable comforters, who send them to a convicting, condemning, and cursing law, for relief; to their duties of obedience to it for peace, pardon, and acceptance with God; who decry the grace of God in man's salvation, and cry up the works of men; who lay aside the person, blood, and righteousness of Christ, the consolation of Israel, and leave out the Spirit of God the Comforter in their discourses; and indeed all that can be said, or directed to, besides the consolation that springs from God by Christ, through the application of the Spirit, signifies nothing; for if any comfort could be had from any other, he would not be, as he is called, the God of all comfort; all the creatures and creature enjoyments, even the best are broken cisterns, and like the deceitful brooks Job compares his friends to, Job 6:15, that disappoint when any expectations of comfort are raised upon them.
k מנחמי עמל "consolatores molestiae", Vatablus, Drusius, Mercerus, Cocceius, Schmidt, Michaelis; "molesti", Beza, Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Codurcus, Tigurine version "molestissimi", Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Many 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.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 16:2. I 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 endeavour to console me. This ye do not; and yet ye pretend to do it! Miserable comforters are ye all.
