Job 16:2

many such things Job cannot help expressing his impatience of the sameness and the amount of his friends" talk, and its uselessness or even worse.

miserable comforters The margin is, troublesome comforters, lit. comforters of trouble, whose comfort brings no ease but only more trouble. The words are a reply to the query of Eliphaz, Are the comforts of God too small for thee? Job 15:11. Their comforts were all founded on a false assumption of his guilt, and contained the condition of his repentance. Such words only increased his perplexity and misery.