Job 16:2

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

I heard many like there: comforters of vexation ye all.

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Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:

Some truly of hired labor announce Christ, not purely, thinking to bring pressure upon my bonds:

For whom thou didst strike they pursued; and they will relate to the pain of thy wounded.

How forcible were words of uprightness! and what will reproving from you prove?

Shall that unseasoned be eaten without salt? if there is taste in purslain slime?

And Job will answer and say,

And how will ye comfort me in vain, and your answers remained treachery?

Reproach broke my heart, and I shall be ill at ease: and I shall hope for comforting, and none; and for those consoling, and I found not