Job 16:2

16:2 “I have heard many things like these before.

What miserable comforters ¹  are you all!

Job 21:34

21:34 So how can you console me with your futile words?

Nothing is left of your answers but deception!” ² 

[16:2]  ¹ tn The expression uses the Piel participle in construct: מְנַחֲמֵי עָמָל (mÿnahame ’amal, “comforters of trouble”), i.e., comforters who increase trouble instead of relieving it. D. W. Thomas translates this “breathers out of trouble” (“A Note on the Hebrew Root naham,” ExpTim 44 [1932/33]: 192).

[21:34]  ² tn The word מָעַל (ma’al) is used for “treachery; deception; fraud.” Here Job is saying that their way of interpreting reality is dangerously unfaithful.