Job 16:2

Job 16:2

Job Reproaches His Pitiless Friends

1 Then Job answered and said:

2 “I have heard many such things;
^aMiserable¹ comforters are you all!

3 Shall¹ words of wind have an end?
Or what provokes you that you answer?

4 I also could speak as you do,
If your soul were in my soul’s place.
I could heap up words against you,
And ^ashake my head at you;

5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth,
And the comfort of my lips would relieve your grief.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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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.

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