job's comforter

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   someone whose comfort is actually discouraging

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Questions about job's comforter

What does job's comforter mean?

job's comforter means "someone whose comfort is actually discouraging".

Is job's comforter a common word?

job's comforter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.