Parallel Verses
NET Bible
"I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"I have heard many [things] like these; all of you [are] {miserable comforters}.
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.
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
Shama`
Rab
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 16:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fifth Speech
1 Then Job replied: 2 "I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all! 3 Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Names
Cross References
Job 6:6
Can food that is tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Job 6:25
How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove?
Job 11:2-3
"Should not this abundance of words be answered, or should this talkative man be vindicated?
Job 13:4-5
But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians!
Job 19:2-3
"How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
Job 26:2-3
"How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the person who has no strength!
Psalm 69:26
For they harass the one whom you discipline; they spread the news about the suffering of those whom you punish.
Philippians 1:16
The latter do so from love because they know that I am placed here for the defense of the gospel.
James 1:19
Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.