Job 21:34
32 He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
33 The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.
So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- 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?
- 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?
- DARBY
- How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious.
- BLB
- And how can you⁺ comfort me in vain, and in your⁺ answers remains falsehood?”
- ÅB
- Hvor kan dere da trøste meg med så tom en trøst? Av deres svar blir det bare troløshet tilbake.
[^1]: vil dere si.
[^2]: Her begynner Jobs svar.
[^3]: vil dere si.
[^4]: Dette er Jobs svar.
[^5]: d.e. englene. - OTB
- Så hvordan kan dere tilby meg tom trøst?
Deres svar er intet annet enn løgn!" - B1930
- Hvor kan I da trøste mig med så tom en trøst? Av eders svar blir det bare troløshet tilbake.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 16:2
“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
Read in contextJob 32:3
and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
Read in contextJob 13:4
You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
Read in contextJob 42:7
After 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.
Read in context