Job 16:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:4-5 : 4 But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value. 5 If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!
  • Job 19:2-3 : 2 How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words? 3 Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.
  • Job 26:2-3 : 2 How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength! 3 How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!
  • Ps 69:26 : 26 Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.
  • Phil 1:16 : 16 These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news:
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;
  • Job 6:6 : 6 Will a man take food which has no taste without salt? or is there any taste in the soft substance of purslain?
  • Job 6:25 : 25 How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?
  • Job 11:2-3 : 2 Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk? 3 Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

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