JOB 16:2 Parallel Verse View

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Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Ἀκήκοα τοιαῦτα πολλὰ, παρακλήτορες κακῶν πάντες.
(Akaʸkoa toiauta polla, paraklaʸtores kakōn pantes. )

ULT “I have heard many such things;
⇔ all of you are comforters of trouble.

UST “I have heard many things like that before.
⇔ All of you, instead of helping me, are only causing me to feel more miserable.

BSB ⇔ “I have heard many things like these;
⇔ miserable comforters are you all.

OEB Many things such as these have I heard:
⇔ Ye are wearisome comforters – all of you.

WEBBE “I have heard many such things.
⇔ You are all miserable comforters!

WMBB (Same as above)

NET “I have heard many things like these before.
⇔ What miserable comforters are you all!

LSV “I have heard many such things,
Miserable comforters [are] you all.

FBV “I've heard all this before. You are comforters who just cause trouble![fn]

16:2 Job uses the same word “trouble” to describe his counselors as Eliphaz has just done in concluding his speech in 15:35. It's as if Job is saying to his friends, “You are these evil people who cause trouble!”

T4T “I have heard things like that before;
⇔ all of you, instead of helping me, are only causing me to feel more miserable.

LEB • things like these; all of you are[fn]

16:? Literally “comforters of trouble”

BBE Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.

Moff No Moff JOB book available

JPS I have heard many such things; sorry comforters are ye all.

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

DRA I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters.

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

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

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

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

KJB-1769 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.[fn]
(I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye/you_all all. )

16.2 miserable: or, troublesome

KJB-1611 [fn][fn]I haue heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

16:2 Or, troublesome.

16:2 Chap. 13. 4.

Bshps I haue oft times heard such thinges: miserable geuers of comfort are ye all the sort of you.
(I have often times heard such things: miserable geuers of comfort are ye/you_all all the sort of you.)

Gnva I haue oft times heard such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
(I have often times heard such things: miserable comforters are ye/you_all all. )

Cvdl I haue oft tymes herde soch thinges. Miserable geuers of comforte are ye, all the sorte of you.
(I have often times heard such things. Miserable geuers of comfort are ye/you_all, all the sorte of you.)

Wycl alle ye ben heuy coumfortouris.
(alle ye/you_all been heuy comforteris.)

Luth Ich habe solches oft gehöret. Ihr seid allzumal leidige Tröster.
(I have such oft gehöret. You seid allzumal leidige Tröster.)

ClVg [Audivi frequenter talia: consolatores onerosi omnes vos estis.[fn]
([Audivi frequenter talia: consolatores onerosi everyone you estis. )

16.2 Audivi frequenter talia. Electi frequenter aliena mala quasi sua audiunt, et ab his eis crimen impingitur, a quibus crimina impacta perpetrantur. Consolatores onerosi omnes vos. Pravi cum laborare bonos, etc., usque ad ne qui lenire debet dolorem augeat.

16.2 Audivi frequenter talia. Electi frequenter aliena mala as_if his_own audiunt, and away his to_them crimen impingitur, from to_whom crimina impacta perpetrantur. Consolatores onerosi everyone vos. Pravi when/with laborare bonos, etc., until to not who lenire debet dolorem augeat.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / yousingular

כֻּלְּ⁠כֶֽם

all,you_all

As the context suggests, the word you is plural here because Job is using it to refer to his three friends. So use the plural form in your translation if your language marks that distinction.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / possession

מְנַחֲמֵ֖י עָמָ֣ל

comforters miserable

Job is not using this possessive form to say that his friends are providing comfort to trouble. He is using the form to say that in their attempts to be his comforters, they are causing him further trouble. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: “troublesome counselors”

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