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Job's comforters
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Job’s comforters
maliciously torment Job while ostensibly attempting to comfort him. [O.T.: Job]
See : Cruelty
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WE'VE probably all met Job's Comforters - people who tell us they're trying to help, but leave us feeling worse, instead of better.
THOUGHT for the DAY by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Suffering is a punishment for our sins, or a test of faith, or any of the stupid things Job's comforters said it is.
Cosmically unfair: what is the point of suffering? by Garvey, John / Commonweal
I was delighted to see that all the Job's Comforters who had forecast little public interest in her death were proved totally and irrefutably wrong.
Nation shows its affection by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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