Albert Barnes Commentary Job 16:2

"I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all." — Job 16:2 (ASV)

Many such things — That is, either things fitted to provoke and irritate, or sentiments that are commonplace. There was nothing new in what they said, and nothing to the purpose.

Miserable comforters — Compare Job 13:4. They had come professedly to condole with him. Now all that they said was adapted only to irritate and to deepen his distress. He was disappointed; and he was deeply wounded and grieved.