| 单词 | job's comforters |
| 释义 | Job's comfortersThree friends of Job who visited him in his affliction and offered him a way of making sense of his troubles: namely, that he was getting what he deserved. Job's friends maintained that misfortunes were sent by God as punishments for sin, and thus despite Job's apparent goodness, he must really be a terrible sinner. Job persistently disputed them, saying that God is supreme and mysterious — that God can send misfortunes to both good and wicked people and may not be second-guessed. notes for Job's comfortersA “Job's comforter” is someone who apparently offers consolation to another person but actually makes the other person feel worse. Words nearby Job's comfortersjob-order costing, job printer, job rotation, job satisfaction, Job's comforter, Job's comforters, job seeker, jobseeker's allowance, job setter, job-share, job sharing The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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