Job 16:2

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

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Know this, my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

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

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and him whom thou hast wounded, they afflict still more.

How forceful are honest words! But what does reproof from you reprove?

Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the slime of the purslane?

Then Job answered:

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

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.