Job 16:2

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

Can tasteless [food] be eaten without salt, or is there taste in the white of a marshmallow plant?

"Should an abundance of words go unanswered, or {a man full of talk} be vindicated?

{O that} you would keep completely silent, and [that] it would become wisdom for you.

"{How long} will you torment me and crush me with words?

"How you have helped {one who has no power}! [How] you have assisted [the] arm {that has no strength}!

Understand [this], my dear brothers: every person must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

"But you {whitewash with lies}; all of you [are] {worthless healers}.

because they persecute [those] whom you, yourself, have struck, and they tell of the pain of [those] you have wounded.

The latter [do so] from love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.