“I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
Both Job and his friends took the same way that disputants commonly take, which is to undervalue one another's sense, and wisdom, and management. The longer the saw of contention is drawn the hotter it grows; and the beginning of this sort of strife is as the letting forth of water; therefore leave it off before it be meddled with.
Commenting on Job 16:1-5
Shall vain words have an end?.... Or "words of wind" (k), vain empty words, great swelling words of vanity, mere bubbles that look big, and have nothing in them; here Job retorts what Eliphaz had insinuated concerning him and his words, Job 15:2; and he intimates such worthless discourses should have an end, and a speedy one, and not be carried on to any length...
They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit. (y) Therefore all their vain devises will turn to their own destruction.
Commenting on Job 16:1-2