Job 16:2

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“I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 13:4-5 : 4 But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians! 5 If only you would keep completely silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
  • Job 19:2-3 : 2 “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words? 3 These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!
  • Job 26:2-3 : 2 “How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the person who has no strength! 3 How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your insight!
  • Ps 69:26 : 26 For they harass the one whom you discipline; they spread the news about the suffering of those whom you punish.
  • Phil 1:16 : 16 The latter do so from love because they know that I am placed here for the defense of the gospel.
  • Jas 1:19 : 19 Living Out the Message Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.
  • Job 6:6 : 6 Can food that is tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
  • Job 6:25 : 25 How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove?
  • Job 11:2-3 : 2 “Should not this abundance of words be answered, or should this talkative man be vindicated? 3 Should people remain silent at your idle talk, and should no one rebuke you when you mock?

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