Job 21:34
What does Job 21:34 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 21:34 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?
KJV
King James Version · 1611How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And how do ye comfort me <FI>with<Fi> vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious.
Context
v.33The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.
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Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 32:3
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
- Job 16:2
I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.
- Job 13:4
But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.
- Job 42:7
And it was so, that, after Jehovah had spoken these words unto Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
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