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Job's comforter

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Job's comforter (jbz)
n.
One who is discouraging or saddening while seemingly offering sympathy or comfort.
[After Job, whose friends pretended to comfort but actually found fault with him.]
Job's comforter
n
a person who, while purporting to give sympathy, succeeds only in adding to distress
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Noun1.Job's comforter - someone whose comfort is actually discouraging
comforter, sympathiser, sympathizer - commiserates with someone who has had misfortune


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But what is most important here is God's rebuke to Job's comforters, the people who tell him that his afflictions came about because of his sinfulness, or because the happiness of the just is always short-lived, or because God was testing his faith.
When a child dies by Garvey, John / Commonweal
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