Job: God Will Punish the Wicked
Job 21:34
In 11 translations
- BSB
- So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
- KJV
- How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?falsehood: Heb. transgression?
- WEB
- So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”
- ASV
- How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?
- LSV
- And how do you comfort me [with] vanity, || And trespass has been left in your answers?”
- YLT
- And how do ye comfort me [with] vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?
- DBY
- How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious.
- DRC
- How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth?
- GNV
- How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaine but lyes?
- JPS
- How then comfort ye me in vain? And as for your answers, there remaineth only faithlessness?
- LXXE
- How then do ye comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וְ֭אֵיךְ תְּנַחֲמ֣וּנִי הָ֑בֶל וּ֝תְשֽׁוּבֹתֵיכֶ֗ם נִשְׁאַר־מָֽעַל׃
- LXX-Br
- Πῶς δὲ παρακαλεῖτέ με κενά; τὸ δὲ ἐμὲ καταπαύσασθαι ἀφʼ ὑμῶν οὐδέν.
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◆ Job's Trial
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 16:2“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
- Job 13:4You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
- Job 32:3and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
- 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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