Job 21:34

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.””

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BSBPD

“So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And how do ye comfort me <FI>with<Fi> vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 21:34 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 13:4You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
  2. Job 13:12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
  3. Job 16:2“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
  4. Job 32:3and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
  5. Job 42:7After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.

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