Parallel Verses

Amplified


“Are the consolations of God [as we have interpreted them to you] too trivial for you,
[Or] were we too gentle toward you [in our first speech] to be effective?

New American Standard Bible

“Are the consolations of God too small for you,
Even the word spoken gently with you?

King James Version

Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?

Holman Bible

Are God’s consolations not enough for you,
even the words that deal gently with you?

International Standard Version

Are God's encouragements inconsequential to you, even a word that has been spoken gently to you?

A Conservative Version

Are the consolations of God too small for thee, even the word that is gentle toward thee?

American Standard Version

Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?

Bible in Basic English

Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you?

Darby Translation

Are the consolations of God too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee?

Julia Smith Translation

Is it small with thee the consolations of God? and a word covered with thee?

King James 2000

Are the consolations of God too small for you? on the word that deals gently with you?

Lexham Expanded Bible

"Are the consolations of God too small for you, a word [spoken] gently with you?

Modern King James verseion

Are the comforts of God small with you, and a word dealing gently with you?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thinkest thou it a small thing of the consolations of God? With thee is a lying word.

NET Bible

Are God's consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you?

New Heart English Bible

Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?

The Emphasized Bible

Too small for thee, are the consolations of GOD? or a word spoken gently with thee?

Webster

Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?

World English Bible

Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?

Youngs Literal Translation

Too few for thee are the comforts of God? And a gentle word is with thee,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
תּנחוּמה תּנחם תּנחוּם 
Tanchuwm 
Usage: 5

of God
אל 
'el 
Usage: 114

מעט מעט 
M@`at 
Usage: 101

with thee is there any secret
אט 
'at 
Usage: 6

דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1438

Verse Info

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Second Response To Job

10
“Among us are both the gray-haired and the aged,
Older than your father.
11 
“Are the consolations of God [as we have interpreted them to you] too trivial for you,
[Or] were we too gentle toward you [in our first speech] to be effective?
12
“Why does your heart carry you away [allowing you to be controlled by emotion]?
And why do your eyes flash [in anger or contempt],

Cross References

1 Kings 22:24

But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah approached and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “How did the Spirit of the Lord pass from me to speak to you?”

Job 5:8-26


“As for me, I would seek God and inquire of Him,
And I would commit my cause to God;

Job 11:13-19


“If you direct your heart [on the right path]
And stretch out your hands to Him,

Job 13:2


“What you know I also know;
I am not inferior to you.

Job 15:8


“Do you hear the secret counsel of God,
And do you limit [the possession of] wisdom to yourself?

Job 36:16


“Then indeed, He enticed you from the mouth of distress and confinement,
Into a broad place where there is no constraint or distress;
And that which was set on your table was full of fatness (rich food).

2 Corinthians 1:3-5

Blessed [gratefully praised and adored] be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort,

2 Corinthians 7:6

But God, who comforts and encourages the depressed and the disquieted, comforted us by the arrival of Titus.

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