I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all.
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all.
I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.
Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
"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 - 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.
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.
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.