Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Then Job replied: New Living Translation Then Job spoke again: English Standard Version Then Job answered and said: Berean Standard Bible Then Job answered: King James Bible Then Job answered and said, New King James Version Then Job answered and said: New American Standard Bible Then Job responded, NASB 1995 Then Job answered, NASB 1977 Then Job answered, Legacy Standard Bible Then Job answered and said, Amplified Bible Then Job answered and said, Christian Standard Bible Then Job answered: Holman Christian Standard Bible Then Job answered: American Standard Version Then Job answered and said, Aramaic Bible in Plain English And Job answered and said: Brenton Septuagint Translation But Job answered and said, Contemporary English Version Job said: Douay-Rheims Bible Then Job answered, and said: English Revised Version Then Job answered and said, GOD'S WORD® Translation Then Job replied [to his friends], International Standard Version In response, Job said: JPS Tanakh 1917 Then Job answered and said: Literal Standard Version And Job answers and says: Majority Standard Bible Then Job answered: New American Bible Then Job answered and said: NET Bible Then Job replied: New Revised Standard Version Then Job answered: New Heart English Bible Then Job answered, Webster's Bible Translation Then Job answered and said, World English Bible Then Job answered, Young's Literal Translation And Job answereth and saith: -- Additional Translations ... Context Job Decries his Comforters1Then Job answered: 2“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.… Cross References Job 15:35 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit." Job 16:2 "I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all. Treasury of Scripture Then Job answered and said, Jump to Previous JobJump to Next JobJob 16 1. Job reproves his friends for unmercifulness17. He maintains his innocence XVI. (1) Then Job answered.--Job, in replying, ceases to continue the argument, which he finds useless; but, after complaining of the way his friends have conducted it, and contrasting the way in which they have treated him with that in which he would treat them were they in his case, he proceeds again to enlarge upon his condition, and makes a touching appeal to Heaven, which prepares us for the more complete confession in Job 19. He ends by declaring that his case is desperate. Verses 1, 2.. - Then Job answered and said, I have heard many such things. There was nothing new in the second speech of Eliphaz, if we except its increased bitterness. Job had heard all the commonplaces about the universal sinfulness of man, and the invariable connection between sin and suffering, a thousand times before. It was the traditional belief in which he and all those about him had been brought up. But it brought him no relief. The reiteration of it only made him feel that there was neither comfort nor instruction to be got from his so-called "comforters." Hence his outburst. Miserable comforters are ye all!Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Then Jobאִיּ֗וֹב (’î·yō·wḇ) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 347: Job -- a patriarch answered: וַיַּ֥עַן (way·ya·‘an) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 6030: To answer, respond Links Job 16:1 NIVJob 16:1 NLT Job 16:1 ESV Job 16:1 NASB Job 16:1 KJV Job 16:1 BibleApps.com Job 16:1 Biblia Paralela Job 16:1 Chinese Bible Job 16:1 French Bible Job 16:1 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 16:1 Then Job answered (Jb) |
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