Then Job answered and said,
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
heard
Job 6:6,25 Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? or is there any …
Job 11:2,3 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full …
Job 13:5 O that you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Job 19:2,3 How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words…
Job 26:2,3 How have you helped him that is without power? how save you the arm …
James 1:19 Why, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to …
miserable. or, troublesome
Job 13:4 But you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value.
Psalm 69:26 For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk to the …
Philippians 1:16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to …
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
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.
if your soul
Job 6:2-5,14 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in …
Matthew 7:12 Therefore all things whatever you would that men should do to you, …
Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
1 Corinthians 12:26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or …
up words
Job 11:2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full …
Job 35:16 Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without …
Proverbs 10:19 In the multitude of words there wants not sin: but he that refrains …
Ecclesiastes 10:14 A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and …
shake mine
2 Kings 19:21 This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him; The virgin …
Psalm 22:7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they …
Psalm 44:14 You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
Psalm 109:25 I became also a reproach to them: when they looked on me they shook their heads.
Jeremiah 18:16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that …
Lamentations 2:15 All that pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their …
Matthew 27:39,40 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads…
But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
But I would
Job 4:3,4 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands…
Job 6:14 To him that is afflicted pity should be showed from his friend; but …
Job 29:25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelled as a king in the …
Psalm 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your …
Proverbs 27:9,17 Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of …
Isaiah 35:3,4 Strengthen you the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees…
Galatians 6:1 Brothers, if a man be overtaken in a fault, you which are spiritual, …
Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?
But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
he hath
Job 3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
Job 7:3,16 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are …
Job 10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint on myself; …
Psalm 6:6,7 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; …
Proverbs 3:11,12 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary …
Isaiah 50:4 The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should …
Micah 6:13 Therefore also will I make you sick in smiting you, in making you …
hast made
Job 1:15-19 And the Sabeans fell on them, and took them away; yes, they have …
Job 29:5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
And thou hast, etc. (Some render, 'thou has fettered me,' as kamat signifies in Arabic; but as it signifies in Syriac to be wrinkled, the common version seems, from the connexion, to be more correct; and if Job's disease were the elephantiasis, these words would apply most forcibly to the wrinkled state of the skin in that disorder.)
is a witness
Job 10:17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation …
Ruth 1:21 I went out full and the LORD has brought me home again empty: why …
Ephesians 5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having …
my leanness
Psalm 106:15 And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
Isaiah 10:16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness…
Isaiah 24:16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory …
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
teareth me
Job 10:16,17 For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion: and again you show …
Job 18:4 He tears himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for you? …
Psalm 50:22 Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, …
Lamentations 3:10 He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
Hosea 5:14 For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house …
he gnasheth
Psalm 35:16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed on me with their teeth.
Psalm 37:12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes on him with his teeth.
Lamentations 2:16 All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they hiss and …
mine
Job 13:24,27 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy…
Job 19:11 He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me to him …
Micah 7:8 Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when …
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.
gaped
Psalm 22:13,16,17 They gaped on me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion…
Psalm 35:21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, …
Luke 23:35,36 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided …
they have smitten
1 Kings 22:24 But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on …
2 Chronicles 18:23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah on …
Isaiah 50:6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked …
Lamentations 3:30 He gives his cheek to him that smites him: he is filled full with reproach.
Micah 5:1 Now gather yourself in troops, O daughter of troops: he has laid …
Matthew 26:67 Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote …
John 18:22 And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck …
Acts 23:2 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite …
2 Corinthians 11:20 For you suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour …
gathered
Psalm 35:15 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: …
Psalm 94:21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, …
Acts 4:27 For of a truth against your holy child Jesus, whom you have anointed, …
God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
at ease
Job 1:2,3 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters…
Job 3:26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
Job 29:3,18,19 When his candle shined on my head, and when by his light I walked …
broken me
Job 4:10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the …
Psalm 44:19 Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered …
Lamentations 3:4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
Matthew 21:44 And whoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever …
by my neck
Job 15:26 He runs on him, even on his neck, on the thick bosses of his bucklers:
Romans 16:4 Who have for my life laid down their own necks: to whom not only …
shaken
Lamentations 3:11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he has made me desolate.
Ezekiel 29:7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you did break, and rend …
set me up
Job 7:12,20 Am I a sea, or a whale, that you set a watch over me…
Lamentations 3:12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
archers
Job 6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof …
Genesis 49:23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:
Psalm 7:12,13 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow, and …
he cleaveth
Job 19:27 Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; …
Lamentations 3:13 He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
doth
Job 6:10 Then should I yet have comfort; yes, I would harden myself in sorrow: …
Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his …
Ezekiel 5:11 Why, as I live, said the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled …
Romans 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, …
2 Peter 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a …
poureth
Job 20:25 It is drawn, and comes out of the body; yes, the glittering sword …
Lamentations 2:11 My eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured …
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
thy face
Psalm 6:6,7 I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; …
Psalm 31:9 Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed …
Psalm 32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalm 69:3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I …
Psalm 102:3-5,9 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth…
Isaiah 52:14 As many were astonished at you; his visage was so marred more than …
Lamentations 1:16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because …
on my eyelids
Job 17:7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
Psalm 116:3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold …
Jonah 2:1-10 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God out of the fish's belly…
Mark 14:34 And said to them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful to death: tarry …
Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.
Not for
Job 11:14 If iniquity be in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness …
Job 15:20,34 The wicked man travails with pain all his days, and the number of …
Job 21:27,28 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully …
Job 22:5-9 Is not your wickedness great? and your iniquities infinite…
Job 27:6,7 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall …
Job 29:12-17 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and …
Job 31:1 I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think on a maid?
Psalm 7:3-5 O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands…
Psalm 44:17-21 All this is come on us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have …
my prayer
Job 8:5,6 If you would seek to God betimes, and make your supplication to the Almighty…
Psalm 66:18,19 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me…
Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the …
1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, …
O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
O earth
Jeremiah 22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the LORD.
cover not
Genesis 4:11 And now are you cursed from the earth, which has opened her mouth …
Nehemiah 4:5 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out …
Isaiah 26:21 For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants …
Ezekiel 24:7 For her blood is in the middle of her; she set it on the top of a …
let my cry
Job 27:9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
Psalm 66:18,19 If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me…
Isaiah 1:15 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: …
Isaiah 58:9,10 Then shall you call, and the LORD shall answer; you shall cry, and …
James 4:3,4 You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume …
Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.
my witness
1 Samuel 12:5 And he said to them, The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed …
Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son…
Romans 9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing …
2 Corinthians 1:23 Moreover I call God for a record on my soul, that to spare you I …
2 Corinthians 11:31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for …
1 Thessalonians 2:10 You are witnesses, and God also, how piously and justly and blamelessly …
on high. Heb. in the high places
Job 25:2 Dominion and fear are with him, he makes peace in his high places.
Psalm 113:5 Who is like to the LORD our God, who dwells on high,
My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
plead
Job 9:34,35 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me…
Job 13:3,22 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God…
Job 23:3-7 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!…
Job 31:35 Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty …
Job 40:1-5 Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said…
Ecclesiastes 6:10 That which has been is named already, and it is known that it is …
Isaiah 45:9 Woe to him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with …
Romans 9:20 No but, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the thing …
neighbour. or, friend
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
