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Job's comforter (j

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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

a person who, while purporting to give sympathy, succeeds only in adding to distress

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Job's comforter - someone whose comfort is actually discouraging

comforter, sympathiser, sympathizer - commiserates with someone who has had misfortune

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comforter Job Job’s comforter sympathiser sympathizer			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) quot; The real question is what to do when life has just pummeled us a good one, and Job's comforters show up at our door. Job's Comforters by Bette Dowdell / Relationships community 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			job analysis job application job candidate job centre job control job control language Job Corps job creation scheme job description job dismissal job enlargement job evaluation job hunting job interview job lot Job master job printer job rotation job satisfaction job security job seeker job sharing job specification job stick Job's comforter Job's comforters Job's news Job's tears Job's-tears job-control language job-hop job-hopping job-hunt job-oriented terminal job-share Job’s comforter Jobation jobber Jobbernowl jobbery jobbing Jobbing house jobbing printer Jobcentre Jobclub jobholder jobless jobless rate joblessness Jobs jobseeker's allowance			Job Training Enrollment Center Job Training for the Homeless Demonstration Program Job Training Initiative Job Training Partnership Act Job Training Partnership Association Job Training Partnership Council Job Training Standard Job Training Work Readiness Job Transfer & Manipulation Job Unfinished Job Vacancies Job Vacancies Job Vacancies Job Vacancies Job Vacancy Job Vacancy Job Vacancy Job Vacancy Job Vacancy Notice Job Vacancy Survey Job Variablen Job Verification System Job Well Done Job Work Folder Job Work Instruction Job's Job's Coffin Job's Coffin Job's comforter Job's comforter Job's comforters Job's Daughters International Job's news Job's syndrome Job's tears Job's tears Job's tears Job's-tears Job's-tears Job's-tears Job-Buckley syndrome job-control language job-hop job-hopped job-hopper job-hopping job-hops job-hunt job-hunted job-hunter job-hunters job-hunting job-hunts Job-Level Fault Tolerance job-oriented terminal job-oriented terminal Job-Person-Environment Assessment Job-Related Physical Agility Test Job-Routed job-seeker

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