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Job's comforter

 
Dictionary: Job's comforter   (jōbz)
 
n.

One who is discouraging or saddening while seemingly offering sympathy or comfort.

[After JOB1, whose friends pretended to comfort but actually found fault with him.]


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Three friends of Job who visited him in his affliction and offered him a way of making sense of his troubles: namely, that he was getting what he deserved. Job's friends maintained that misfortunes were sent by God as punishments for sin, and thus despite Job's apparent goodness, he must really be a terrible sinner. Job persistently disputed them, saying that God is supreme and mysterious — that God can send misfortunes to both good and wicked people and may not be second-guessed.

  • A “Job's comforter” is someone who apparently offers consolation to another person but actually makes the other person feel worse.

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    The noun has one meaning:

    Meaning #1: someone whose comfort is actually discouraging


     
     
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