the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Job 16:2
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I have heard many things like these.You are all miserable comforters.
"I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you all!
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
"I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
"I have heard many things like these. You are all painful comforters!
"I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!
"I have heard many such things; Wearisome and miserable comforters are you all.
"I have heard many things like these; Miserable comforters are you all!
"I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are you all!
I haue oft times heard such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
"I have heard many such things;Troublesome comforters are you all.
"I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
I have often heard this, and it offers no comfort.
"I have heard this stuff so often! Such sorry comforters, all of you!
I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.
I have heard many such things; wicked comforters are you all.
"I have heard many things like these; all of you are miserable comforters.
I have heard many such things . You are all miserable comforters.
I haue oft tymes herde soch thinges. Miserable geuers of comforte are ye, all the sorte of you.
I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.
Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
I have heard many such things; sorry comforters are ye all.
I haue heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
I haue oft times heard such thinges: miserable geuers of comfort are ye all the sort of you.
I have heard many such things: poor comforters are ye all.
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Y `herde ofte siche thingis; alle ye ben heuy coumfortouris.
I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are you all.
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all.
"I have heard many such things; Miserable comforters are you all!
"I have heard all this before. What miserable comforters you are!
"I have heard many such things. All of you bring trouble instead of comfort.
"I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
I have heard many such things, Wearisome comforters, are ye all!
I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters.
"I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters [are] ye all.
"I have heard many such things; Sorry comforters are you all.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
heard: Job 6:6, Job 6:25, Job 11:2, Job 11:3, Job 13:5, Job 19:2, Job 19:3, Job 26:2, Job 26:3, James 1:19
miserable: or, troublesome, Job 13:4, Psalms 69:26, Philippians 1:16
Reciprocal: Esther 6:13 - but shalt surely Job 2:11 - to comfort Job 15:3 - he reason Job 18:2 - How long Job 21:2 - let this be Job 21:34 - comfort Psalms 69:20 - comforters Psalms 108:12 - for vain Matthew 27:4 - see
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The man said, "The woman you put here with me gave me fruit from that tree. So I ate it."
Then God said to the man, "I commanded you not to eat from that tree. But you listened to your wife and ate from it. So I will curse the ground because of you. You will have to work hard all your life for the food the ground produces.
Sarai was Abram's wife, but she did not have any children. She had an Egyptian slave named Hagar.
Sarai told Abram, "The Lord has not allowed me to have children, so sleep with my slave. Maybe she can have a son, and I will accept him as my own." Abram did what Sarai said.
Abram slept with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When Hagar realized this, she became very proud and began to feel that she was better than Sarai her owner.
But Abram said to Sarai, "She is your slave. You can do anything you want to her." So Sarai was cruel to Hagar, and Hagar ran away.
The angel of the Lord said to her, "Sarai is your owner. Go home to her and obey her."
The angel of the Lord also said, "From you will come many people—too many people to count."
I will bless her. I will give her a son, and you will be the father. She will be the mother of many new nations. Kings of nations will come from her."
Then one of them said, "I will come again in the spring. At that time your wife Sarah will have a son." Sarah was listening in the tent and heard these things.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I have heard many such things,.... As those Eliphaz has been discoursing of, concerning the punishment of wicked men; many instances of this kind had been reported to him from his preceptors, and from his parents, and which they had had from theirs, as well as Eliphaz had from his; and he had heard these things, or such like, told "many times" from one to another, as Ben Gersom interprets it; or "frequently", as the Vulgate Latin version, yea, he had heard them his friends say many things of this kind; so that there was nothing new delivered, nothing but what was "crambe millies cocta", the same thing over and over again; insomuch that it was not only needless and useless, but nauseous and disagreeable, and was far from carrying any conviction with it, or tracing weight and influence upon him; that he only gave it the hearing, and that was all, and scarce with any patience, it being altogether inapplicable to him: that wicked men were punished for their sins, he did not deny; and that good men were also afflicted, was a very plain case; and that neither good nor hatred, or an interest in the favour of God or not, were not known by these things; nor could any such conclusion be fairly drawn, that because Job was afflicted, that therefore he was a bad man:
miserable comforters [are] ye all; his friends came to comfort him, and no doubt were sincere in their intentions; they took methods, as they thought, proper to answer such an end; and were so sanguine as to think their consolations were the consolations of God, according to his will; and bore hard upon Job for seeming to slight them, Job 15:11; to which Job here may have respect; but they were so far from administering divine consolation, that they were none at all, and worse than none; instead of yielding comfort, what they said added to his trouble and affliction; they were, as it may be rendered, "comforters of trouble", or "troublesome comforters" k, which is what rhetoricians call an oxymoron; what they said, instead of relieving him, laid weights and heavy pressures upon him he could not bear; by suggesting his afflictions were for some enormous crime and secret sin that he lived in the commission of; and that he was no other than an hypocrite: and unless he repented and reformed, he could not expect it would be better with him; and this was the sentiment of them one and all: so to persons under a sense of sin, and distressed about the salvation of their souls, legal preachers are miserable comforters, who send them to a convicting, condemning, and cursing law, for relief; to their duties of obedience to it for peace, pardon, and acceptance with God; who decry the grace of God in man's salvation, and cry up the works of men; who lay aside the person, blood, and righteousness of Christ, the consolation of Israel, and leave out the Spirit of God the Comforter in their discourses; and indeed all that can be said, or directed to, besides the consolation that springs from God by Christ, through the application of the Spirit, signifies nothing; for if any comfort could be had from any other, he would not be, as he is called, the God of all comfort; all the creatures and creature enjoyments, even the best are broken cisterns, and like the deceitful brooks Job compares his friends to, Job 6:15, that disappoint when any expectations of comfort are raised upon them.
k מנחמי עמל "consolatores molestiae", Vatablus, Drusius, Mercerus, Cocceius, Schmidt, Michaelis; "molesti", Beza, Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Codurcus, Tigurine version "molestissimi", Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Many such things - That is, either things fitted to provoke and irritate, or sentiments that are common-place. There was nothing new in what they said, and nothing to the purpose.
Miserable comforters - Compare Job 13:4. They had come professedly to condole with him. Now all that they said was adapted only to irritate, and to deepen his distress. He was disappointed; and he was deeply wounded and grieved.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 16:2. 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 endeavour to console me. This ye do not; and yet ye pretend to do it! Miserable comforters are ye all.
