Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
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.
International Standard Version
"I've heard many things like this. What miserable comforters you all are!
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.
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
Shama`
Rab
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 16:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fifth Speech
1 And Job made answer and said, 2 Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble. 3 May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?
Names
Cross References
Job 6:6
Will a man take food which has no taste without salt? or is there any taste in the soft substance of purslain?
Job 6:25
How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?
Job 11:2-3
Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk?
Job 13:4-5
But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.
Job 19:2-3
How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?
Job 26:2-3
How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!
Psalm 69:26
Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.
Philippians 1:16
These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news:
James 1:19
You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;