Job 21:34

How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

King James Version
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Other Translations for Job 21:34

BSB
So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood."
AKJV
How then comfort you me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?
CPDV
Therefore, how long will you console me in vain, when your answer is shown to be repugnant to truth?
ERV
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?
NHEB
So how can you comfort me with nonsense, seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?"
SMT
And how will ye comfort me in vain, and your answers remained treachery?

Commentary for Job 21:34

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Barnes’ Notes Classic commentary from Albert Barnes Matthew Henry Commentary Classic commentary from Matthew Henry
Overview of Job 21:34
Summary
Your hollow arguments contain deception and fail comfort
Event
Job rejects friends' advice
Estimated Time Period
Post-Exile (c. 600-400 BC)
Category
Lament