Job 16:2

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I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

Will a man take food which has no taste without salt? or is there any taste in the soft substance of purslain?

Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk?

If only you would keep quiet, it would be a sign of wisdom!

How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?

How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!

You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.

Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.

These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news: