Cross References

Job 16:2

New International Version

“I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you!

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Then Job replied:

“So how can you console me with your nonsense? Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”

How painful are honest words! But what do your arguments prove?

Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow?

Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless; I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found none.

For they persecute those you wound and talk about the pain of those you hurt.

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

My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,