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2007-03-27 09:15:11 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Did you happen to see my picture next to the dictionary entry?

It's almost as good as a job's comforter:
One who is discouraging or saddening while seemingly offering sympathy or comfort.

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

2007-03-27 09:46:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

"a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint."

[Origin: 1770–80; Jeremi(ah) + -ad, in reference to Jeremiah's Lamentations]

1.a Major Prophet of the 6th and 7th centuries b.c.
2.a book of the Bible bearing his name. Abbreviation: Jer.
3.a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “God is high.”

2007-03-27 16:23:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

I would like to personally thank acid zebra for helping save a couple seconds!! I hate when I have to go to dictionary.com just to answer a question but I really like to answer so I do.

And yes- that can be very cleansing- I ocassionally do that here.

2007-03-27 16:28:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Yes, and the man himself was an inspiration to us all:
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (17:9)

2007-03-27 16:24:03 · answer #4 · answered by JAT 6 · 0 0

It can be very therapeutic, and you don't even need to be a theist to indulge in one. All you need is an issue.

2007-03-27 16:25:09 · answer #5 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0 0

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