*I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
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 Iyov answered,
So how can you comfort me with nonsense, seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?*
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
The former insincerely preach Messiah from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;