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Job 16:2 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" “I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters! "

Job 16:2

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1 Then Job answered,

2 “I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

4 I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

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"Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none."

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From This Chapter

Job 16:1

"Then Job answered,"

Job 16:3

"Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?"

Job 16:4

"I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,"

Job 16:5

"but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you."

Job 16:6

"“Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?"

Job 16:7

"But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate."

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