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Job 16:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.

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And Job made answer and said,

Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?

How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?

Will a man take food which has no taste without salt? or is there any taste in the soft substance of purslain?

My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.

These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news:

You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;