Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 2. I have heard many such things ] These sayings of the ancients are not strange to me; but they do not apply to my case: ye see me in affliction; ye should endeavour to console me. This ye do not; and yet ye pretend to do it! Miserable comforters are ye all.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-5 - Eliphaz had represented Job's discourses as unprofitable, and nothin to the purpose; Job here gives his the same character. Those who pas censures, must expect to have them retorted; it is easy, it is endless but what good does it do? Angry answers stir up men's passions, but never convince their judgments, nor set truth in a clear light. What Job says of his friends is true of all creatures, in comparison with God; one time or other we shall be made to see and own that miserabl comforters are they all. When under convictions of sin, terrors of conscience, or the arrests of death, only the blessed Spirit can comfort effectually; all others, without him, do it miserably, and to no purpose. Whatever our brethren's sorrows are, we ought by sympath to make them our own; they may soon be so.
Original Hebrew שׁמעתי8085 כאלה428 רבות7227 מנחמי5162 עמל5999 כלכם׃3605
