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Job's comforter |
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a Job's comforter (old-fashioned) someone who tries to make you feel happier but makes you feel worse instead. She's a real Job's comforter. She keeps telling me I'm going to die soon anyway so I shouldn't worry about anything. |
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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. |
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