Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"I've heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are!
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Holman Bible
You are all miserable comforters.
A Conservative Version
I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are ye all.
American Standard Version
I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.
Amplified
“I have heard many such things;
Wearisome and miserable comforters are you all.
Bible in Basic English
Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
Darby Translation
I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all.
Julia Smith Translation
I heard many like there: comforters of vexation ye all.
King James 2000
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"I have heard many [things] like these; all of you [are] {miserable comforters}.
Modern King James verseion
I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"I have oft times heard such things. Miserable givers of comfort are ye, all the sort of you.
NET Bible
"I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!
New Heart English Bible
"I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters.
The Emphasized Bible
I have heard many such things, Wearisome comforters, are ye all!
Webster
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!
Youngs Literal Translation
I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters are ye all.
Interlinear
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Rab
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 16:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fifth Speech
1 In response, Job said: 2 "I've heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are! 3 Will windy words like yours never end? What is upsetting you that you keep on arguing?
Names
Cross References
Job 6:6
Tasteless food isn't eaten without salt, is it? Is there any taste in an egg white?
Job 6:25
The truth can be painful, but what has your argument proven?
Job 11:2-3
"Shouldn't a multitude of words be answered, or a person who talks too much be vindicated?
Job 13:4-5
"But as for you, you whitewash with lies; all of you are worthless quacks.
Job 19:2-3
"How long do you intend to keep torturing me and trying to break me by what you're saying?
Job 26:2-3
"What a help you are to the weak! How powerfully you deliver those without strength!
Psalm 69:26
For they persecute those whom you have struck, and they brag about the pain of those you have wounded.
Philippians 1:16
The latter are motivated by love, because they know that I have been appointed to defend the gospel.
James 1:19
You must understand this, my dear brothers. Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.