Job's comforter
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Job's comforter
First recorded in 1730–40
Example Sentences
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Maurice is Tom's sausage-maker, but he has now emerged as a truly biblical figure, Job's comforter.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2013
In the final sections of the book, Zorn, 32, obviously failing in energy and spirit,' takes the advice of Job's comforter: to curse heaven and die.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am happy to say that my Job's comforter turned out a false prophet; snow soon gave place to sleet, and sleet to rain, and before midnight the muck was complete.
From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Henry A. Murray
"You are rather a Job's comforter, Twining," said Beecher, tartly.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
"You are a Job's comforter," Mannering remarked, with a smile.
From A Lost Leader by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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