Ayub 16:2

16:2 “I have heard many things like these before.

What miserable comforters ¹  are you all!

Ayub 24:25

24:25 “If this is not so, who can prove me a liar

and reduce my words to nothing?” ² 

[16:2]  ¹ tn The expression uses the Piel participle in construct: מְנַחֲמֵי עָמָל (mÿnahame ’amal, “comforters of trouble”), i.e., comforters who increase trouble instead of relieving it. D. W. Thomas translates this “breathers out of trouble” (“A Note on the Hebrew Root naham,” ExpTim 44 [1932/33]: 192).

[24:25]  ² tn The word אַל (’al, “not”) is used here substantivally (“nothing”).