Job 16:2

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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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  • 1 Then answered the LORD, and said,

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  • 20 Reproach 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.

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

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