Job 16:2

Bishops' Bible (1568)

I haue oft times heard such thinges: miserable geuers of comfort are ye all the sort of you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:4-5 : 4 As for you, ye are workmaisters of lyes, and vnprofitable phisitians altogether. 5 Woulde God ye kept your tongue, for then might ye be taken for wise men.
  • Job 19:2-3 : 2 How long wyll ye vexe my soule, and trouble me with wordes? 3 Lo, ten times haue ye reproched me, and are not ashamed, but haue laughed me to scorne.
  • Job 26:2-3 : 2 Who hast thou helped? Him that is without strength? sauest thou the arme that hath no strength? 3 Where is the counsayle that thou shouldest geue him which hath no wisdome? Hast thou shewed the way of right lyuing?
  • Ps 69:26 : 26 For they persecute hym whom thou hast smitten: and they talke of the griefe of them whom thou hast wounded.
  • Phil 1:16 : 16 The one preache Christe of strife, not sincerely, supposyng to adde more affliction to my bondes:
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 Wherfore my deare brethre, let euery man be swyft to heare, slowe to speake, slowe to wrath.
  • Job 6:6 : 6 That which is vnsauerie, shall it be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the whyte of an egge?
  • Job 6:25 : 25 How strong are the wordes of trueth? and which of you can rebuke or reproue them?
  • Job 11:2-3 : 2 Shoulde not he that maketh many wordes be aunswered? Shoulde he that bableth much be commended therin? 3 Shoulde thy lies make men holde their peace, and when thou mockest others shall no man make thee ashamed?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Iob aunswered, & saide:

  • Job 16:3-7
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    3 Shall not vaine wordes come yet to an ende? Or what maketh thee bolde so to aunswere?

    4 I coulde speake as ye do also: but would God that your soule were in my soules steade, then could I frame wordes for you, and shake my head at you:

    5 I shoulde comfort you with my mouth, & releasse your paine with the talking of my lippes.

    6 For all my wordes my sorowe wyll not ceasse: And though I holde my tongue, what am I eased?

    7 But now that God hath sent me aduersitie, thou hast troubled al my congregation.

  • Job 21:1-2
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    1 Iob aunswered, and saide:

    2 O heare diligently my wordes, and that shalbe in steede of your consolations,

  • Job 19:1-3
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    1 Iob aunswered, and saide:

    2 How long wyll ye vexe my soule, and trouble me with wordes?

    3 Lo, ten times haue ye reproched me, and are not ashamed, but haue laughed me to scorne.

  • 34 Howe vayne then is the comfort that ye geue me, seyng falshood remayneth in all your aunsweres?

  • 1 Iob aunswered, and sayde:

  • 21 They heare my mournyng, but there is none that wyll comfort me: All myne enemies haue hearde of my trouble, and are glad therof because thou hast done it: and thou hast brought foorth the time which thou calledst, when they also shal be lyke vnto me.

  • Job 6:1-2
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    1 But Iob aunswered, and sayde:

    2 O that my complaynt were truely wayed, and my punishment layde in the balaunces together:

  • Job 23:1-2
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    1 Iob aunswered, & said:

    2 Though my talke be this day in bitternesse, and my plague greater then my groning.

  • 1 So Iob aunswered, & saide:

  • 2 And Iob aunswered, and sayde:

  • 12 Yea when I had diligently pondred what ye sayde, I found not one of you that made any good argument against Iob, that directly could make aunswere vnto his wordes,

  • 11 Thinkest thou it a small thing of the consolations of God? with thee is a lying worde.

  • 1 Wherefore heare my wordes O Iob, and hearken vnto all that I will say:

  • Job 42:6-7
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    6 Wherefore I geue myne owne selfe the blame, and take repentaunce in the dust and asshes.

    7 Now when the Lorde had spoken these wordes vnto Iob, it came to passe that the Lorde saide to Eliphas the Themanite: I am displeased with thee, and thy two friendes: for ye haue not spoken of me the thyng that is right, lyke as my seruaunt Iob hath done.

  • 10 Then shoulde I haue some comfort, yea I woulde desire him in my payne that he would not spare, for I wil not be against the wordes of the holy one.

  • 1 Then Iob aunswered the Lord, and saide:

  • 1 Iob aunswered, and sayde,

  • 16 Therfore do I weepe, and mine eyes gushe out of water: for the comfort that shoulde quicken me is farre fro me, my children are driuen away: for why? the enemie hath gotten the vpper hande.

  • 20 Reproofe hath broke my heart a peeces, I am full of heauinesse: I loked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none, and for some that shoulde comfort me, but I coulde fynde none.

  • 16 Therefore doth Iob open his mouth but in vaine, & he maketh many wordes without knowledge.

  • 3 Then Iob aunswered the Lorde, saying:

  • 18 I woulde haue had comfort against sorowe: but sorowe is come vpon me, and heauinesse vexeth my heart.

  • 20 Are not my dayes fewe? Let him then leaue of fro me, and let me a lone, that I may comfort my selfe a litle,

  • 1 And Iob proceeded and went foorth in his parable, saying,

  • 1 Moreouer the Lorde spake vnto Iob, and saide:

  • 6 He hath made me a byworde of the people, where as afore I was their ioy.

  • 12 Behold, all ye your selues haue seene it, why then do ye thus vanishe in vanitie?

  • 2 What is he that darkeneth his counsaile by wordes without knowledge?

  • 10 They haue opened their mouthes wide vpon me, and smitten me vpon the cheeke dispitefully, they gather the selues together against me.

  • 20 My friendes geue me many wordes to scorne, and myne eye powreth out teares vnto God.

  • 15 I haue sowed a sackecloth vpon my skinne, and wallowed my head in the dust.

  • 1 Then aunswered Bildad the Suhite, and saide:

  • 13 When I say, My bed shal comfort me, I shall haue some refreshing by talking to my selfe vpon my couch:

  • 8 Now hast thou spoken in myne eares, & I haue heard the voyce of thy wordes:

  • 1 Lo, all this haue I seene with mine eye, heard with mine eare, and vnderstande it.

  • 19 Both these thinges are happened vnto thee, but who is sory for it? yea destruction, wastyng, hunger, and sworde, but who wyll comfort thee?

  • 1 I am the man that thorowe the rodde of his wrath haue experience of miserie.

  • 4 Knowest thou not this of olde, and since God plaged man vpon earth,

  • 1 So Iob proceeded and went foorth in his parable, saying: