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Job 16:1–3

Job Replies: Miserable Comforters Are You

16 Then Job answered and said:

“I have heard emany such things;

fmiserable comforters are you all.

Shall gwindy words have an end?

Or what provokes you that you answer?

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Job 16:1–3 — The New International Version (NIV)

Then Job replied:

“I have heard many things like these;

you are miserable comforters, all of you!

Will your long-winded speeches never end?

What ails you that you keep on arguing?

Job 16:1–3 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

Then Job answered and said,

I have heard many such things:

Miserable comforters are ye all.

Shall vain words have an end?

Or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

Job 16:1–3 — New Living Translation (NLT)

Then Job spoke again:

“I have heard all this before.

What miserable comforters you are!

Won’t you ever stop blowing hot air?

What makes you keep on talking?

Job 16:1–3 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

Then Job answered and said:

“I have heard many such things;

Miserable comforters are you all!

Shall words of wind have an end?

Or what provokes you that you answer?

Job 16:1–3 — New Century Version (NCV)

Then Job answered:

“I have heard many things like these.

You are all painful comforters!

Will your long-winded speeches never end?

What makes you keep on arguing?

Job 16:1–3 — American Standard Version (ASV)

Then Job answered and said,

I have heard many such things:

Miserable comforters are ye all.

Shall vain words have an end?

Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

Job 16:1–3 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

And Job answered and said, I have heard many such things: grievous comforters are ye all. Shall words of wind have an end? or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

Job 16:1–3 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

Then Job replied ⸤to his friends⸥, 

“I have heard many things like this before. 

You are all pathetic at comforting me. 

Will ⸤your⸥ long-winded speeches never end? 

What disturbs you that you keep on answering ⸤me⸥? 

Job 16:1–3 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

Then Job answered:

I have heard many things like these.

You are all miserable comforters.

Is there no end to your empty words?

What provokes you that you continue testifying?

Job 16:1–3 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Then Job answered:

“I have heard many such things;

miserable comforters are you all.

Have windy words no limit?

Or what provokes you that you keep on talking?

Job 16:1–3 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

Then Job answered and said,

“I have heard many things like these;

all of you are miserable comforters.

Is there a limit to windy words?

What provokes you that you answer?

Job 16:1–3 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

Job replied,

“I’ve heard many of those things before.

You are terrible at comforting me!

Your speeches go on forever.

Won’t they ever end?

What’s wrong with you?

Why do you keep on arguing?

Job 16:1–3 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

Then Job answered,

“I have heard many such things;

Sorry comforters are you all.

“Is there no limit to windy words?

Or what plagues you that you answer?


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