Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
"I have heard many [things] like these; all of you [are] {miserable comforters}.
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.
Bible in Basic English
Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
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.
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
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Rab
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 16:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fifth Speech
1 Then Job answered and said, 2 "I have heard many [things] like these; all of you [are] {miserable comforters}. 3 [Is there] a limit to windy words? What provokes you that you answer?
Names
Cross References
Job 6:6
Can tasteless [food] be eaten without salt, or is there taste in the white of a marshmallow plant?
Job 6:25
How painful are {upright words}! But what does {your reproof} reprove?
Job 11:2-3
"Should an abundance of words go unanswered, or {a man full of talk} be vindicated?
Job 13:4-5
"But you {whitewash with lies}; all of you [are] {worthless healers}.
Job 19:2-3
"{How long} will you torment me and crush me with words?
Job 26:2-3
"How you have helped {one who has no power}! [How] you have assisted [the] arm {that has no strength}!
Psalm 69:26
because they persecute [those] whom you, yourself, have struck, and they tell of the pain of [those] you have wounded.
Philippians 1:16
The latter [do so] from love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel.
James 1:19
Understand [this], my dear brothers: every person must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,