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Job 16:2

New Century Version

“I have heard many things like these. You are all painful comforters!

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Then Job answered:

“So how can you comfort me with this nonsense? Your answers are only lies!”

Honest words are painful, but your arguments prove nothing.

Tasteless food is not eaten without salt, and there is no flavor in the white of an egg.

Insults have broken my heart and left me weak. I looked for sympathy, but there was none; I found no one to comfort me.

They chase after those you have hurt, and they talk about the pain of those you have wounded.

They preach because they have love, and they know that God gave me the work of defending the Good News.

My dear brothers and sisters, always be willing to listen and slow to speak. Do not become angry easily,