“I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.
I have heard many such things; wearisome and miserable comforters are you all!
I’ve heard many things like these. All of you are sorry comforters.
I have often heard such things; you are all aggravating comforters.
I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters.
Then Job answered and said:
How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”
How forceful are upright words! But what does reproof from you reprove?
Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?
Reproaches 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 him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.
The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;