diff --git a/OmniSharp/Configuration/PathReplacement.cs b/OmniSharp/Configuration/PathReplacement.cs
index 26d52b4..50658dd 100644
--- a/OmniSharp/Configuration/PathReplacement.cs
+++ b/OmniSharp/Configuration/PathReplacement.cs
@@ -13,6 +13,23 @@ public static OmniSharpConfiguration Load()
             return Load(configLocation: "", clientMode: null);
         }
 
+        private static void offsetToLineColumn(string message, int offset, out int lineNumber, out int column, out string lineContent)
+        {
+            string[] lines = message.Replace("\r\n", "\n").Replace("\n\r", "\n").Split('\n');
+            int accumulatedLength = 0;
+
+            lineNumber = 0;
+
+            while (accumulatedLength + lines[lineNumber].Length < offset)
+            {
+                accumulatedLength += lines[lineNumber].Length;
+                lineNumber++;
+            }
+
+            column = (offset - accumulatedLength);
+            lineContent = lines[lineNumber];
+        }
+
         public static OmniSharpConfiguration Load(string configLocation, string clientMode)
         {
             if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(configLocation))
@@ -21,8 +38,31 @@ public static OmniSharpConfiguration Load(string configLocation, string clientMo
                 configLocation = Path.Combine(executableLocation, "config.json");
             }
             var config = StripComments(File.ReadAllText(configLocation));
-            _config = new Nancy.Json.JavaScriptSerializer().Deserialize<OmniSharpConfiguration>(config);
-            _config.ConfigFileLocation = configLocation;
+            try
+            {
+                _config = new Nancy.Json.JavaScriptSerializer().Deserialize<OmniSharpConfiguration>(config);
+                _config.ConfigFileLocation = configLocation;
+            }
+            catch (System.ArgumentException e)
+            {
+                Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
+                const string pattern = @"\(([0-9]+)\)$";
+                int offset;
+                if (int.TryParse(Regex.Match(e.Message, pattern).Groups[1].Value, out offset))
+                {
+                    int lineNumber, columnNumber;
+                    string lineContent;
+
+                    offsetToLineColumn(e.Message, offset, out lineNumber, out columnNumber, out lineContent);
+                    Console.WriteLine(configLocation + "(" + lineNumber + "," + columnNumber + "):" + lineContent);
+                }
+                // The system cannot work because of a User
+                // error. Therefore we Exit(). If we would throw
+                // the error again, we would trigger a stacktrace.
+                // That would lead the user to think this is a
+                // programming error.
+                Environment.Exit(1);
+            }
 
             if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(clientMode))
             {