King James Version
Job 16:2 in the King James Version says “I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. miserable: or, troublesome” — study this verse from Job chapter 16 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. miserable: or, troublesome”
Job 16:2 · KJV
Then Job answered and said,
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. miserable: or, troublesome
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest? vain: Heb. words of wind
I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“I have heard”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“comforters”
H5162properly, to sigh, i.e., breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e., (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavo
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
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