Job 16:2

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

Miserable - burdensome; i:e., annoying. (cf. Job 13:4)

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

miserable . wearisome.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The friends can do nothing but repeat their exasperating commonplaces.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Reply of Job to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 16:2 . Miserable comforters are ye all. The Vulgate, “burdensome comforters,” who afflicted instead of consoling their friend. Job 16:3 . S...
The Biblical Illustrator

Miserable comforters are ye all. Miserable comforters They are but sorry comforters who, being confounded with the sight of the afflicted’s tro...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Complains of the Unmerciful Attitude of his Friends
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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.

Related Commentaries of Job 16:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 16:2