Job 21:34

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So how can you comfort me with empty words, since your answers remain falsehoods?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 16:2 : 2 I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are all of you.
  • Job 32:3 : 3 Elihu was also angry with Job's three friends because they had found no answer and yet they had condemned Job.
  • Job 42:7 : 7 After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, 'My anger burns against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about Me as My servant Job has.'
  • Job 13:4 : 4 Yet you, however, are smearers of falsehood; all of you are worthless physicians.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 16:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1 Then Job replied and said:

    2 I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are all of you.

    3 Will your words of wind never end? Or what provokes you to answer?

  • Job 15:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 Are the consolations of God too trivial for you, or a word spoken gently with you?

    12 Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash?

  • 18 Why has my pain become perpetual, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will You indeed be to me like a deceptive stream, waters that are unreliable?

  • 12 Look, all of you have seen this yourselves; why then do you speak nonsense?

  • 33 The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows after him, and countless go before him.

  • Job 21:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 Then Job answered and said:

    2 Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.

  • 18 My grief is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

  • 25 If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and make my words nothing?

  • 28 But now, please look at me; would I lie to your face?

  • 3 Will your empty talk silence others? Will you mock without anyone to rebuke you?

  • 22 Because you disheartened the righteous with your lies when I had not caused them grief, and because you encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways to save their lives,

  • 21 To make you know the certainty of true words, so that you can give truthful answers to those who send you?

  • 3 Do you fix your gaze on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?

  • 28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the noble? Where is the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?

  • 24 Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

  • 4 I will answer you and your companions who are with you.

  • 4 Is my complaint directed to a man? Why then should my spirit not be impatient?

  • 8 But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless.

  • Job 16:5-6
    2 verses
    68%

    5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the comfort of my lips would bring you relief.

    6 If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I refrain, what do I lose?

  • Job 19:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1 Then Job answered and said,

    2 How long will you torment my soul and crush me with words?

  • 20 Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

  • 2 Surely mockers are with me, and my eye must dwell on their provocations.

  • 10 It would still be my comfort— I would even exult in the midst of unrelenting pain— for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • 4 Yet you, however, are smearers of falsehood; all of you are worthless physicians.

  • 21 People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it. Bring the day you have announced, so they may become like me.

  • 20 You know my reproach, my shame, and my disgrace; all my adversaries are before you.

  • 1 Then Job answered and said:

  • 15 then where is my hope? And who can see any hope for me?

  • 16 "Because of these things I weep; my eyes, my eyes flow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are desolate because the enemy has prevailed."

  • 15 Listen! They are saying to me, 'Where is the word of the LORD? Let it now be fulfilled!'

  • 22 Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You respond to me.

  • 67%

    2 Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness. You have given me relief when I was in trouble. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

  • 4 Do you not know this from ancient times, since man was placed on the earth,

  • 1 Then Job answered and said:

  • 29 Since I am already condemned, why should I labor in vain?

  • 3 How have you advised without wisdom and provided abundant insight?

  • 19 These double calamities have come upon you—destruction and devastation, famine and sword. Who will console you?

  • 12 I paid close attention to you. But not one of you has proved Job wrong; not one of you has answered his arguments.

  • 5 If indeed you are exalting yourselves over me and using my disgrace to argue against me,

  • 28 If you say, 'Why should we persecute him?' since the root of the matter is found in me,

  • 14 what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when He calls me to account?

  • 1 Then Job answered and said:

  • 29 Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you have brought your guilt to remembrance by exposing your transgressions for all to see—your sins revealed in all your actions—because you have been brought to mind, you will be captured.

  • 6 Isn't your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?