Cross References

Job 16:2

The Scriptures 1998

“I have heard many matters like these; all of you are comforters of trouble!

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And Iyoḇ

How then do you comfort me in vain, seeing that perverseness remains in your answers?”

Words of uprightness are harsh! But what does your reproving reprove?

Is tasteless food eaten without salt? Is there any flavour in the juice of mallows?

Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick; I looked for sympathy, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

For they persecute him whom You have smitten, And talk about the pain of those You have wounded.

the former announce Messiah from selfish ambition, not sincerely, thinking to add distress to my chains,

So then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,