Job 21:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 16:2 : 2 Such things have frequently come to my ears: you are comforters who only give trouble.
  • Job 32:3 : 3 And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.
  • Job 42:7 : 7 And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.
  • Job 13:4 : 4 But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.

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