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Job 16:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I have often heard this, and it offers no comfort.

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Job said:

But empty, meaningless words are the comfort you offer me.

The truth is always painful, but your arguments prove nothing.

What is food without salt? What is more tasteless than the white of an egg?

I am crushed by insults, and I feel sick. I had hoped for mercy and pity, but there was none.

They cause trouble for people you have already punished; their gossip hurts those you have wounded.

They love Christ and know that I am here to defend the good news about him.

My dear friends, you should be quick to listen and slow to speak or to get angry.