Job 21:34 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁴ How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁴ How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁴ How then can you comfort me with empty and futile words, since in your replies there lurks falsehood?

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁴ How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?

Common English Bible

³⁴ How empty is your comfort to me; only deceit remains in your responses.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁴ Therefore, how long will you console me in vain, when your answer is shown to be repugnant to truth?

Job 21:34 Cross References

Job 13:12

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.

Job 13:4

As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.

Job 16:2

“I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.

Job 22:1

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:

Job 32:3

he was angry also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

Job 42:7

After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.