Job 16:2

King James Version 1611 (Original)

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:4-5 : 4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. 5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
  • Job 19:2-3 : 2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? 3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.
  • Job 26:2-3 : 2 How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength? 3 How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
  • Ps 69:26 : 26 For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
  • Phil 1:16 : 16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
  • Job 6:6 : 6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
  • Job 6:25 : 25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
  • Job 11:2-3 : 2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? 3 Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

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    6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

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    1Then Job answered and said,

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  • 21They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

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    6Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

    7And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

  • 10Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

  • 1Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

  • 1Then Job answered and said,

  • 16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

  • 20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

  • 16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

  • 3Then Job answered the LORD, and said,

  • 18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

  • 20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • 1Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

  • 1Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said,

  • 6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

  • 12Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

  • 2Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

  • 10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

  • 20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

  • 15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

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