Job 16:2

“I have heard many such things, etc.] As those Eliphaz has been discoursing of, concerning the punishment of wicked men; many instances of this kind had been reported to him from his preceptors, and from his parents, and which they had had from theirs, as well as Eliphaz had from his; and he had heard these things, or such like, told “many times” from one to another, as Ben Gersom interprets it; or “frequently”, as the Vulgate Latin version, yea, he had heard them his friends say many things of this kind; so that there was nothing new delivered, nothing but what was “crambe millies cocta”, the same thing over and over again; insomuch that it was not only needless and useless, but nauseous and…”

“Many such things - That is, either things fitted to provoke and irritate, or sentiments that are common-place. There was nothing new in what they said, and nothing to the purpose. Miserable comforters - Compare Job 13:4. They had come professedly to condole with him. Now all that they said was adapted only to irritate, and to deepen his distress. He was disappointed; and he was deeply wounded and grieved. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Such things - These things are but vulgar and trivial. And so are all creatures, to a soul under deep conviction of sin, or the arrest of death. Job 16:3”

“heard: Job 6:6, Job 6:25, Job 11:2, Job 11:3, Job 13:5, Job 19:2, Job 19:3, Job 26:2, Job 26:3; Jam 1:19 miserable: or, troublesome, Job 13:4; Psa 69:26; Phi 1:16 Job 16:3”