Job 16:2
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all.
American King James Version (AKJV)
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all.
American Standard Version (ASV)
I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
Webster's Revision
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
World English Bible
"I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
English Revised Version (ERV)
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Clarke's Job 16:2 Bible Commentary
I have heard many such things - These sayings of the ancients are not strange to me; but they do not apply to my case: ye see me in affliction; ye should endeavor to console me. This ye do not; and yet ye pretend to do it! Miserable comforters are ye all.
Barnes's Job 16:2 Bible Commentary
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 said, and nothing to the purpose.
Miserable comforters - Compare Job 13:4. They had come professedly to condole with him. Now all that they said was adapted only to irritate, and to deepen his distress. He was disappointed; and he was deeply wounded and grieved.
Wesley's Job 16:2 Bible Commentary
16:2 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.