“I have heard many matters like these; all of you are comforters of trouble!
I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.
I have heard many such things; wearisome and miserable comforters are you all!
I’ve heard many things like these. All of you are sorry comforters.
I have often heard such things; you are all aggravating comforters.
I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters.
And Iyoḇ answered and said,
How then do you comfort me in vain, seeing that perverseness remains in your answers?”
Words of uprightness are harsh! But what does your reproving reprove?
Is tasteless food eaten without salt? Is there any flavour in the juice of mallows?
Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick; I looked for sympathy, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
For they persecute him whom You have stricken, And talk about the pain of those You have wounded.
the former announce Messiah from selfish ambition, not sincerely, thinking to add distress to my chains,
So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,