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Job 16:2

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

KJV

Audivi frequenter talia : consolatores onerosi omnes vos estis.

Vulgate

Ἀκήκοα τοιαῦτα πολλά· παρακλήτορες κακῶν πάντες.

LXX

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

ASV

שָׁמַ֣עְתִּי כְ/אֵ֣לֶּה רַבּ֑וֹת מְנַחֲמֵ֖י עָמָ֣ל כֻּלְּ/כֶֽם

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵ֖לֶּה
'lh
pronoun · 744×
וֹ
v
noun · 55×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
נִי
ny
verb · 108×
רַב
rb
verb · 458×
שִׁמְעוּ
shm'v
verb · 1157×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Esth 6:13 — And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast
  • Job 13:4 — But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
  • Job 13:4 — But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
  • Job 21:34 — How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
  • Ps 69:20 — Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.