Job 16:2

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

That which is unsavory, shalt it be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

"Should not he that maketh many words, be answered? Should he that babbleth much, be commended therein?

Would God ye kept your tongue, that ye might be taken for wise men!

"How long will ye vex my mind, and trouble me with words?

"O how helpest thou the weak? What comfort givest thou unto him that hath no strength?

Wherefore, dear brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

As for you, ye are workmasters of lies, and unprofitable physicians altogether.

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk how they may vex them whom thou hast wounded.

The one part preacheth Christ of strife, and not purely, supposing to add more adversity to my bonds.