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Job 16:2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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Then Job answered:

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

How forceful are honest words! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

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

Insults 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.

For they persecute those whom you have struck down, and those whom you have wounded they attack still more.

These proclaim Christ out of love, knowing that I have been put here for the defense of the gospel;

You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,