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Job's comforter

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who is discouraging or saddening while seemingly offering sympathy or comfort.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who depresses and discourages under the appearance or with the purpose of consoling.
  • noun A boil (in allusion to Job ii. 7).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who, in trying to offer help or advice, says something that simply adds to the distress.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone whose comfort is actually discouraging

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Job, whose friends pretended to comfort but actually found fault with him.]

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From the Bible Job 16.2 where Job's supposed friends offered advice that was not helpful.

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