Job 16:1-2
Then Job answered and said:
“I have heard many such things;
miserable comforters are you all.
Tag: Counseling when people are suffering
Doctors have an oath they make that commits them to "do no harm." It is called the Hippocratic Oath. It is a Greek oath that new doctors swear by a number of healing gods to follow a certain set of ethical guidelines. Outside the "healing gods" of the Greeks, it is a good thing to confess and swear you will do no harm to those you treat with your practice of medicine. Those who offer counsel to others ought to have to hold to a similar oath: Do No Harm! The three friends of Job, as stated by him in the above verse, were "miserable comforters" ... all of them. Job's friends came to him and had committed themselves to bring him comfort. Note:
Job 2:11
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.
Epic fail!!! This is what happens when we try to figure out the "why" and simple don't work on the "who"! They lost all comfort when they wanted to blame Job for his own failures. Our job is to point people to God and show them His grace, mercy, power and His hope. All else makes us miserable comforters.
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