Job 16:1-3, Then Job answered and said: “I have heard many such things; MISERABLE COMFORTERS ARE YOU ALL! SHALL WORDS OF WIND HAVE AN END? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Job just wanted them to stop, they were trying to teach Job common wisdom as if didn’t know this! Rather than bringing comfort they brought him more pain!
Job 16:4-5, I also could speak as you do, IF YOUR SOUL WERE IN MY SOUL’S PLACE. I could heap up words against you, And shake my head at you; BUT I WOULD STRENGTHEN YOU WITH MY MOUTH, AND THE COMFORT OF MY LIPS WOULD RELIEVE YOUR GRIEF.
TRIALS TEACH US HOW TO COMFORT OTHERS WHO ARE GOING THROUGH THE SAME SITUATION! GOD COMFORTS US THAT WE MAY COMFORT OTHERS!
2Cor 1:3-4, BLESSED BE THE GOD AND FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE FATHER OF MERCIES and GOD OF ALL COMFORT, WHO COMFORTS US IN ALL OUR TRIBULATION, THAT WE MAY BE ABLE TO COMFORT THOSE WHO ARE IN ANY TROUBLE, WITH THE COMFORT WITH WHICH WE OURSELVES ARE COMFORTED BY GOD.
Job 16:20-21, My friends scorn me; MY EYES POUR OUT TEARS TO GOD. OH, THAT ONE MIGHT PLEAD FOR A MAN WITH GOD, As a man pleads for his neighbor!
This is the second time that he desires a mediator between GOD and man, Job 9:33!
BUT THERE IS ONE LIKE THE SON OF MAN, ONE WHO FELT OUR PAIN, ONE WHO CAN SYMPATHIZE WITH OUR WEAKNESSES! THAT IS THE GOD/MAN JESUS!
Heb 4:15, For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, YET WITHOUT SIN.
Dan 7:13-14, “I was watching in the night visions, And behold, ONE LIKE THE SON OF MAN, COMING WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN! He came to the Ancient of Days, And they brought Him near before Him. THEN TO HIM WAS GIVEN DOMINION AND GLORY AND A KINGDOM, THAT ALL PEOPLES, NATIONS, AND LANGUAGES SHOULD SERVE HIM. HIS DOMINION IS AN EVERLASTING DOMINION, WHICH SHALL NOT PASS AWAY, AND HIS KINGDOM THE ONE WHICH SHALL NOT BE DESTROYED.