'Job's comforter' definitions:

Definition of 'Job's comforter'

(from WordNet)
noun
Someone whose comfort is actually discouraging

Definition of 'Job's comforter'

From: GCIDE
  • Job \Job\ (j[=o]b), n. The hero of the book of that name in the Old Testament; the prototypical patient man. [1913 Webster]
  • Job's comforter. (a) A false friend; a tactless or malicious person who, under pretense of sympathy, insinuates rebukes. (b) A boil. [Colloq.]
  • Job's news, bad news. --Carlyle.
  • Job's tears (Bot.), a kind of grass (Coix Lacryma), with hard, shining, pearly grains. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Job's comforter'

From: GCIDE
  • Comforter \Com"fort*er\, n.
  • 1. One who administers comfort or consolation. [1913 Webster]
  • Let no comforter delight mine ear But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Script.) The Holy Spirit, -- referring to his office of comforting believers. [1913 Webster]
  • But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things. --John xiv. 26. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A knit woolen tippet, long and narrow. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
  • The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight. --Pop. Sci. Monthly. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
  • Job's comforter, a boil. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]