Job 21:34

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 16:2 : 2 I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.
  • Job 32:3 : 3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
  • Job 42:7 : 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.
  • Job 13:4 : 4 But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 16:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1Then Job answered and said,

    2I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.

    3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

  • Job 15:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?

    12Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,

  • 18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

  • 12Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye become altogether vain?

  • 33The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.

  • Job 21:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1Then Job answered and said,

    2Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations.

  • 18Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

  • 25And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, And make my speech nothing worth?

  • 28Now therefore be pleased to look upon me; For surely I shall not lie to your face.

  • 3Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

  • 22Because with lies ye have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive;

  • 21To make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, That thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?

  • 3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?

  • 28For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?

  • 24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy?

  • 4I will answer thee, And thy companions with thee.

  • 4As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

  • 8Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

  • Job 16:5-6
    2 verses
    68%

    5[ But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage [your grief] .

    6Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?

  • Job 19:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1Then Job answered and said,

    2How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?

  • 20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • 2Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.

  • 10And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • 4But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.

  • 21They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.

  • 20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

  • 1Then Job answered and said,

  • 15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

  • 16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.

  • 15Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of Jehovah? let it come now.

  • 22Then call thou, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and answer thou me.

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    2O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? [How long] will ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood? {{Selah

  • 4Knowest thou [not] this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth,

  • 1Then Job answered and said,

  • 29I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?

  • 3How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!

  • 19These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?

  • 12Yea, I attended unto you, And, behold, there was none that convinced Job, Or that answered his words, among you.

  • 5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

  • 28If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;

  • 14What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

  • 1Then Job answered and said,

  • 29while they see for thee false visions, while they divine lies unto thee, to lay thee upon the necks of the wicked that are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

  • 6Is not thy fear [of God] thy confidence, [And] the integrity of thy ways thy hope?