Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
Job 21:34 - New Revised Standard Version How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition How then can you comfort me with empty and futile words, since in your replies there lurks falsehood? American Standard Version (1901) How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood? Common English Bible How empty is your comfort to me; only deceit remains in your responses. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, how long will you console me in vain, when your answer is shown to be repugnant to truth? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth? |
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
As for you, you whitewash with lies; all of you are worthless physicians.
he was angry also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, though they had declared Job to be in the wrong.
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.