| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. Someone whose comfort is actually discouraging.[Wordnet]. | |
| Expression | 1. (a) A false friend; a tactless or malicious person who, under pretense of sympathy, insinuates rebukes. (b) A boil. [Colloq.].[Websters]. | |
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Common Expressions: Job's comforter
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Job's comforter | 1: (a) A false friend; a tactless or malicious person who, under pretense of sympathy, insinuates rebukes. (b) A boil. [Colloq.]. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: Someone whose comfort is actually discouraging. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
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Specialty Expressions: Job's comforter
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Job's comforter | Literature | 1: One who pretends to sympathise in your grief, but says that you brought it on yourself; thus in reality adding weight to your sorrow. (See above.) 2: Job's wife. Some call her Rahmat, daughter of Ephraim, son of Joseph; and others call her Makhir, daughter of Manasses. (Sale: Korn xxi., note.) 3: She is also called by some Sitis; and a tradition exists that Job, at the command of God, struck the earth with his foot from the dunghill where he lay, and instantly there welled up a spring of water with which his wife washed his sores, and they were miraculously healed. (Korn, xxxvi. 41.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Job's comforter | Slang in 1811 | JOB'S COMFORTER. One who brings news of some additional misfortune. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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