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2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

Job 16:2

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. …

  • Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

  • How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

  • The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:

  • Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

Both Job and his friends took the same way that disputants commonly take, which is to undervalue one another’s sense, and wisdom, and management. The longer the saw of contention is drawn the hotter it grows; and the beginning of this sort of strife is as the letting forth of water; therefore leave it off before it be meddled with . Eliphaz had represented Job’s discourses as idle, and unprofitabl…

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