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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Job 16:2

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.

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See also Job 16:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 16:2. _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 endeavour to console me. This...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 16-17 JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ _ 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1)_ 2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6) 3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15) 4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pit...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Job has had enough of his tormenting comforters (Job 16:2 f.). He could, if the positions were reversed, well enough offer them such mere verbal consolation (the stress in Job 16:5 is on mouth and lip...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MISERABLE. wearisome....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _many such things_ Job cannot help expressing his impatience of the sameness and the amount of his friends" talk, and its uselessness or even worse. _miserable comforters_ The margin is, _troublesome...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Job 16:1-5. Job expresses his weariness of the monotony of his friends'speeches, and rejects their consolation, which is only that of the lip...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. JOB'S TRIALVINDICATION OR? (Job 16:1, Job 17:16). 1. The words of his friends are aimless and unprofitable. (Job 16:1-5) TEXT 16:1-5 16 THEN JOB ANSWERED AND SAID, 2 I have heard many such thing...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _I HAVE HEARD MANY SUCH THINGS: MISERABLE COMFORTERS ARE YE ALL._ Miserable - burdensome; i:e., annoying. (cf. Job 13:4)...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The friends can do nothing but repeat their exasperating commonplaces....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S FOURTH SPEECH (JOB 16:17) See introductory remarks on Job 15-21. 1-5. Job retorts scornfully that he too could offer such empty 'comfort' if he were in the friends' place....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job’s friends wanted to help him. They tried to teach him about God. They tried to show Job his errors. And they wanted to encourage him. But their words did not help Job. They never understood the r...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I HAVE HEARD MANY SUCH THINGS. — Trite rather than true, or at least the whole truth. “Common is the common-place, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.”...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שָׁמַ֣עְתִּי כְ אֵ֣לֶּה רַבֹּ֑ות מְנַחֲמֵ֖י עָמָ֣ל...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1; Job 17:1 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying term...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Comforters. "Job's friends or comforters," are become proverbial, to denote people who do the contrary to what they seem to promise. (Haydock) --- Never did men sustain worse the character of comfort...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I HAVE HEARD MANY SUCH THINGS,.... As those Eliphaz has been discoursing of, concerning the punishment of wicked men; many instances of this kind had been reported to him from his preceptors, and from...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all. Ver. 2. _I have heard many such things_] Heard them over and over, till I am even sated and nauseated, _Vexatus toties rauci; _ _q.d....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I have heard many such things_ Both from you and divers others; and though you please yourselves with them, as if you had some great and important discoveries, they are but vulgar and trivial things....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I have heard many such things, he had now heard arguments of this kind in a greater amount than he cared for. MISERABLE COMFORTERS, literally, "consolers of distress," ARE YE ALL, men whose words, ins...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB COMPLAINS OF THE UNMERCIFUL ATTITUDE OF HIS FRIENDS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB REPROVES THEIR HEARTLESSNESS (vv.1-5) Eliphaz had claimed to be giving Job "the consolations of God," and this moves Job to reply bitterly, "Miserable comforters are you all!" (v.2). Instead of...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    MISERABLE: Or, troublesome...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "I HAVE HEARD MANY SUCH THINGS": "He begins with statement of weariness. He had heard all of this unprofitable talk before" _(Strauss p. 155)._ "SORRY COMFORTERS ARE YOU ALL": Instead of helping him a...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-5 Eliphaz had represented Job's discourses as unprofitable, and nothing to the purpose; Job here gives his the same character. Those who pass censures, must expect to have them retorted; it is easy...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I HAVE HEARD MANY SUCH THINGS; both from you, who do so odiously repeat the same things, and from divers others; for these things, though you pride and please yourselves in them, as if you had made so...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 16:2 heard H8085 (H8804) things H7227 Miserable H5999 comforters H5162 (H8764) heard - Job 6:6,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job charges that Eliphaz is but heaping up words. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: It is a great comfort to a good man who lies under the censures of brethren who do not un...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 16:2. _Miserable comforters are ye all._ The Vulgate, “burdensome comforters,” who afflicted instead of consoling their friend. Job 16:3. _Shall vain words have an end._ He plainly tells Eliphaz...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Miserable comforters are ye all._ MISERABLE COMFORTERS They are but sorry comforters who, being confounded with the sight of the afflicted’s trouble, do grate upon their (real or supposed) guilt, w...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 16:1 Job responds again. He begins by pointing out that his friends have failed as comforters (Job 16:2), even though comfort was their original purpose for coming to him (see...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JOB’S SECOND REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ I. Complains of the want of sympathy on the part of his friends (Job 16:2). 1. _They gave him only verses from the ancients about the punishment of the wicked and the...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Job answers the second speech of Eliphaz in a discourse which occupies two (short) chapters, and is thus not much more lengthy than the speech of his antagonist. His tone is very despairing...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So Job answered and said, I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all. Shall empty words (Job 16:1) Talking about vanity, he said, Shall empty words have an end? or what emboldens...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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....

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