miserable. wearisome.
Many such things - That is, either things fitted to provoke and irritate, or sentiments that are common-place. There was nothing new in what they...
Job has had enough of his tormenting comforters ( Job 16:2 f.). He could, if the positions were reversed, well enough offer them such mere verbal co...
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. I have heard many such things - These sayings of the ancients are not strange to me...
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. Miserable - burdensome; i:e., annoying. (cf. Job 13:4 )
Job's Fourth Speech ( Job 16:17 ) See introductory remarks on Job 15-21. 1-5. Job retorts scornfully that he too could offer such empty 'comfor...
The friends can do nothing but repeat their exasperating commonplaces.
I have heard many such things. — Trite rather than true, or at least the whole truth. “Common is the common-place, And vacant chaff well meant for...
XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom...
Turning from “Miserable Comforters” unto God Job 16:1-22 With bitterness the sufferer turns from his comforters to God. As the r.v. makes clear...
Job immediately answered. His answer dealt less with the argument they suggested than before. While the darkness was still about him, and in some sen...
(1) В¶ Then Job answered and said, (2) I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. The retort Job makes on Eliphaz, is to the sa...
I have heard many such things ,.... As those Eliphaz has been discoursing of, concerning the punishment of wicked men; many instances of this kind h...
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all. Ver. 2. I have heard many such things ] Heard them over and over, till I am even...
I have heard many such things Both from you and divers others; and though you please yourselves with them, as if you had some great and important d...
JOB REPROVES THEIR HEARTLESSNESS (vv.1-5) Eliphaz had claimed to be giving Job "the consolations of God," and this moves Job to reply bitterly,...
The Reply of Job to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. ...
I have heard many such things; both from you, who do so odiously repeat the same things, and from divers others; for these things, though you pride...
JOB’S SECOND REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Complains of the want of sympathy on the part of his friends ( Job 16:2-5 ). 1. They gave him only verses fro...
Job 16:2 . Miserable comforters are ye all. The Vulgate, “burdensome comforters,” who afflicted instead of consoling their friend. Job 16:3 . S...
Miserable comforters are ye all. Miserable comforters They are but sorry comforters who, being confounded with the sight of the afflicted’s tro...
EXPOSITION Job answers the second speech of Eliphaz in a discourse which occupies two (short) chapters, and is thus not much more lengthy than t...
Job Complains of the Unmerciful Attitude of his Friends
I have heard many such things, he had now heard arguments of this kind in a greater amount than he cared for. Miserable comforters, literally, "con...
James 1:19 ; Job 11:2 ; Job 11:3 ; Job 13:4 ; Job 13:5 ; Job 19:2 ; Job 19:3 ; Job 26:2 ; Job 26:3 ; Job 6:25 ; Job 6:6 ; Philippians 1:1...
Such things — These things are but vulgar and trivial. And so are all creatures, to a soul under deep conviction of sin, or the arrest of death.
2 I have heard many such things: miserablea comforters are ye all.