Job 16:2 — Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 16:26 words

HebrewMeaning

שָׁמַ֣עְתִּיšāmaʿətiy

I have heardverbH8085

attentively · carefully · certainly · consent ···

כְ/אֵ֣לֶּהkəʾēleh

like these thingspronH428

so · some · such · them ···

רַבּ֑וֹתrabwōt

manyadjH7227

-ant · -antly) · captain · elder ···

מְנַחֲמֵ֖יmənaḥămēy

are comforters ofverbH5162

ease · repent(-er · -ing · self)

עָמָ֣לʿāmāl

troublenounH5999

iniquity · labour · mischief · miserable ···

כֻּלְּ/כֶֽםkuləkem

all of younounH3605

) · altogether · any · enough ···

ℹWords are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 16:2

I have heard many such things. For the Elect often hear the wrong things of others, as if they belonged to themselves, and guilt is charged upon them by those, by whom the charges so fastened on them are done. Now by this reply, blessed Job denotes that season of the Church, when, under oppression from her adversaries, she is looked upon as cast to the ground by their temporal power. Whence it follows; burthensome comforters are ye all. Whether they be heretics, or whether…
Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 13 §1

Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain

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