Job's Comforter

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Job's Comforter

Definition: Job's Comforter

Job's Comforter

Noun

1. Someone whose comfort is actually discouraging.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Specialty Definition: Job's Comforter

Domain	Definition
Literature	Job's Comforter 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.) Job's wife. Some call her Rahmat, daughter of Ephraim, son of Joseph; and others call her Makhir, daughter of Manasses. (Sale: Korân xxi., note.) 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. (Korân, xxxvi. 41.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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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Synonyms within Context: Job's Comforter

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dejection	Affliction; sorry sight; memento mori; damper, wet blanket, Job's comforter.
Hopelessness	Noun: hopelessness; Adjective: despair, desperation; despondency, depression; (dejection); pessimism, pessimist; Job's comforter; bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translation: Job's Comforter

Language		Translations for "Job's comforter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		pesszimista vigasztaló, kelés (abscess, blotch, boil, carbuncle, fester), furunkulus (anthraces, anthrax, boil). (various references)

Pig Latin		ob'sjay omfortercay

Swedish		dålig tröstare. (various references)

Thai		คนที่ทำให้สถานการ�"์ยิ่งเลวร้ายเมื่อต้องการจะปลอบหรือช่วยเหลือคนอื่น. (various references)

Turkish		avutmaya çalışırken kalp kıran kimse. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Job's Comforter

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "'-b-c-e-f-j-m-o-o-o-r-r-s-t"
	-4 letters: comforters.
	-5 letters: comforter, forebooms, objectors, storeroom.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography

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