The Meaning of Job 16:2 Explained

Job 16:2

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

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

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

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

Discover Job 16:2

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 16:2?

MEANING: What does Job 16:2 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 16:2 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 16:2?

What is the context of Job 16:2?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 16:2 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 16:1-22 - Turning From "miserable Comforters" Unto God

With bitterness the sufferer turns from his comforters to God. As the r.v. makes clear, he says that if he were in their place and they in his, instead of joining words together and evincing the pride of the immaculate, he would set himself to speak strengthening words and to assuage their grief by tender sympathy.

He compares his pains to the attack of a wild beast, Job 16:7-14; and from this he proceeds to describe the anguish of his grief, Job 16:15-20. But toward the end of the chapter a new thought begins to shape itself; and from his lowest despair he catches sight of a Vindicator and a vindication that must someday be his. Job 16:21 should be read as in the r.v., margin. Job wanted a son of man to plead for him; and his prayer has been more than answered in the Son of man, who pleads for us "not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an indissoluble life," Hebrews 7:16. "O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul," Lamentations 3:58. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 16

¹ Job reproves his friends for unmercifulness
¹⁷ He maintains his innocence

What do the individual words in Job 16:2 mean?

I have heard these [things] many comforters Miserable [are] you all

שָׁמַ֣עְתִּי כְאֵ֣לֶּה רַבּ֑וֹת מְנַחֲמֵ֖י עָמָ֣ל כֻּלְּכֶֽם

שָׁמַ֣עְתִּי	I have heard
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, first person common singular Root: שָׁמַע Sense: to hear, listen to, obey.
כְאֵ֣לֶּה	these [things]
Parse: Preposition-k, Pronoun, common plural Root: אֵהֶל Sense: these.
רַבּ֑וֹת	many
Parse: Adjective, feminine plural Root: רַב Sense: much, many, great.
מְנַחֲמֵ֖י	comforters
Parse: Verb, Piel, Participle, masculine plural construct Root: נָחַם Sense: to be sorry, console oneself, repent, regret, comfort, be comforted.
עָמָ֣ל	Miserable
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: עָמָל Sense: .
כֻּלְּכֶֽם	[are] you all
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, second person masculine plural Root: כֹּל Sense: all, the whole.

What are the major concepts related to Job 16:2?

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