Job 16:2

English Standard Version 2016

“I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.

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Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.

For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.

How forceful are upright words! But what does reproof from you reprove?

Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?

Then Job answered and said:

How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”

Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.