Job 16 · Verse 2

Job 16:2

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Job 16:2, King James Version

Job 16:2 in other translations

BSB“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
WEB“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
ASVI have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.
YLTI have heard many such things, Miserable comforters are ye all.
DARBYI have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.
BBESuch things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
WebsterI have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

What does Job 16:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
SECOND SERIES.

Job 16:1-22. Job's Reply.

2. (Job 13:4).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 2 I have heard many such things - These sayings of the ancients are not strange to me; but they do not apply to my case: ye see me in affliction; ye should endeavor to console me. This ye do not; and yet ye pretend to do it! Miserable comforters are ye all.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 16:1-5

Eliphaz had represented Job's discourses as unprofitable, and nothing to the purpose; Job here gives his the same character. Those who pass censures, must expect to have them retorted; it is easy, it is endless, but what good does it do? Angry answers stir up men's passions, but never convince their judgments, nor set truth in a clear light. What Job says of his friends is true of all creatures, in comparison with…

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Job 16:2 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

שָׁמַ֣עְתִּיsha.Ma'.tiI have heardH8085
כְאֵ֣לֶּהkhe.'E.lehlike these [things]H428
רַבּ֑וֹתra.BotmanyH7227
מְנַחֲמֵ֖יme.na.cha.Mei[are] comforters ofH5162
עָמָ֣ל'a.MaltroubleH5999
כֻּלְּכֶֽם\׃ku.le.Khemall of youH3605

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 16:2

  • Job 13:4-5

    But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

  • James 1:19

    Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

  • Psalms 69:26

    For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

  • Philippians 1:16

    The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:

  • Job 6:6

    Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

  • Job 19:2-3

    How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

  • Job 6:25

    How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

  • Job 11:2-3

    Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

  • Job 26:2-3

    How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength? How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
heard.
6:6,25; 11:2,3; 13:5; 19:2,3; 26:2,3; Jas 1:19
miserable. or, troublesome.
13:4; Ps 69:26; Php 1:16

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Context

  • Job 16:1

    Then Job answered and said,

  • Job 16:2

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

  • Job 16:3

    Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

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Job 16:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Muchas veces he oído cosas como estas: consoladores molestos sois todos vosotros.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
J’ai entendu bien des choses comme celles-là; vous êtes tous des consolateurs fâcheux.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Ich habe vieles dergleichen gehört; leidige Tröster seid ihr alle!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Audivi frequenter talia: consolatores onerosi omnes vos estis.