Cross References

Job 16:2

New English Translation

“I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!

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Then Job replied:

So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!”

How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove?

Can food that is tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.

For they harass the one whom you discipline; they spread the news about the suffering of those whom you punish.

The latter do so from love because they know that I am placed here for the defense of the gospel.

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.