Job 16:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

I haue oft times heard such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:4-5 : 4 For in deede ye forge lyes, and all you are physitions of no value. 5 Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!
  • Job 19:2-3 : 2 Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes? 3 Ye haue now ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.
  • Job 26:2-3 : 2 Whom helpest thou? him that hath no power? sauest thou the arme that hath no strength? 3 Whome counsellest thou? him that hath no wisedome? thou shewest right well as the thing is.
  • Ps 69:26 : 26 For they persecute him, whome thou hast smitten: and they adde vnto the sorrowe of them, whome thou hast wounded.
  • Phil 1:16 : 16 The one part preacheth Christ of contention and not purely, supposing to adde more affliction to my bandes.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 Wherefore my deare brethren, let euery man be swift to heare, slowe to speake, and slowe to wrath.
  • Job 6:6 : 6 That which is vnsauerie, shall it be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egge?
  • Job 6:25 : 25 Howe stedfast are the wordes of righteousnes? and what can any of you iustly reproue?
  • Job 11:2-3 : 2 Should not the multitude of wordes be answered? or should a great talker be iustified? 3 Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? & when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Bvt Iob answered, and said,

  • Job 16:3-7
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    3 Shall there be none ende of wordes of winde? or what maketh thee bold so to answere?

    4 I could also speake as yee doe: (but woulde God your soule were in my soules stead) I could keepe you company in speaking, and could shake mine head at you,

    5 But I woulde strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips should asswage your sorowe.

    6 Though I speake, my sorow can not be asswaged: though I cease, what release haue I?

    7 But now hee maketh mee wearie: O God, thou hast made all my congregation desolate,

  • Job 21:1-2
    2 verses
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    1 Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,

    2 Heare diligently my wordes, and this shalbe in stead of your consolations.

  • Job 19:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

    1 Bvt Iob answered, and said,

    2 Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?

    3 Ye haue now ten times reproched me, and are not ashamed: ye are impudent toward mee.

  • 34 How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaine but lyes?

  • 1 Bvt Iob answered, and sayde,

  • 21 They haue heard that I mourne, but there is none to comfort mee: all mine enemies haue heard of my trouble, and are glad, that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day, that thou hast pronounced, and they shalbe like vnto me.

  • Job 6:1-2
    2 verses
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    1 Bvt Iob answered, and said,

    2 Oh that my griefe were well weighed, and my miseries were layed together in the balance.

  • Job 23:1-2
    2 verses
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    1 Bvt Iob answered and sayd,

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

  • 1 Then Iob answered, and sayde,

  • 2 And Iob cryed out, and sayd,

  • 12 Yea, when I had considered you, lo, there was none of you that reproued Iob, nor answered his wordes:

  • 11 Seeme the consolations of God smal vnto thee? is this thing strange vnto thee?

  • 1 Wherefore, Iob, I pray thee, heare my talke and hearken vnto all my wordes.

  • Job 42:6-7
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    6 Therefore I abhorre my selfe, and repent in dust and ashes.

    7 Now after that the Lord had spoken these wordes vnto Iob, ye Lord also said vnto Eliphaz ye Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for yee haue not spoken of me the thing that is right, like my seruant Iob.

  • 10 Then should I yet haue comfort, (though I burne with sorowe, let him not spare) because I haue not denyed the wordes of the Holy one.

  • 1 Then Iob answered the Lord, and sayd,

  • 1 Then Iob answered, and sayd,

  • 16 For these things I weepe: mine eye, euen mine eye casteth out water, because the comforter that should refresh my soule, is farre from me: my children are desolate, because the enemie preuailed.

  • 20 Rebuke hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heauinesse, and I looked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none: and for comforters, but I found none.

  • 16 Therfore Iob openeth his mouth in vaine, and multiplieth wordes without knowledge.

  • 3 (39:36) Then Iob answered the Lord, saying,

  • 18 I would haue comforted my selfe against sorowe, but mine heart is heauie in me.

  • 20 Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,

  • 1 Moreouer Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying,

  • 1 (39:34) Moreouer ye Lord spake vnto Iob, & said,

  • 6 Hee hath also made mee a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them.

  • 12 Beholde, all ye your selues haue seene it: why then doe you thus vanish in vanitie?

  • 2 Who is this that darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge?

  • 10 They haue opened their mouthes vpon me, and smitten me on the cheeke in reproch; they gather themselues together against me.

  • 20 My friends speake eloquently against me: but mine eye powreth out teares vnto God.

  • 15 I haue sowed a sackcloth vpon my skinne, and haue abased mine horne vnto the dust.

  • 1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

  • 13 When I say, My couch shal relieue me, and my bed shall bring comfort in my meditation,

  • 8 Doubtles thou hast spoken in mine eares, and I haue heard the voyce of thy wordes.

  • 1 Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it.

  • 19 These two thinges are come vnto thee: who will lament thee? desolation and destruction and famine, and the sworde: by whome shall I comfort thee?

  • 1 I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation.

  • 4 Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,

  • 1 So Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying,