Job 21:34

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Howe vayne then is the comfort that ye geue me, seyng falshood remayneth in all your aunsweres?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 16:2 : 2 I haue oft times heard such thinges: miserable geuers of comfort are ye all the sort of you.
  • Job 32:3 : 3 And with Iobs three friendes he was angry also, because they had founde no reasonable aunswere, and yet condempned Iob.
  • Job 42:7 : 7 Now when the Lorde had spoken these wordes vnto Iob, it came to passe that the Lorde saide to Eliphas the Themanite: I am displeased with thee, and thy two friendes: for ye haue not spoken of me the thyng that is right, lyke as my seruaunt Iob hath done.
  • Job 13:4 : 4 As for you, ye are workmaisters of lyes, and vnprofitable phisitians altogether.

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  • Job 16:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1 Iob aunswered, & saide:

    2 I haue oft times heard such thinges: miserable geuers of comfort are ye all the sort of you.

    3 Shall not vaine wordes come yet to an ende? Or what maketh thee bolde so to aunswere?

  • Job 15:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 Thinkest thou it a small thing of the consolations of God? with thee is a lying worde.

    12 Why doth thyne heart so bewitche thee? And wherefore winckest thou with thyne eyes,

  • 18 Shall my heauinesse endure for euer? Are my plagues then so great that they may neuer be healed? Wylt thou be as one that is false, and as a water that falleth, and can not continue?

  • 12 Behold, all ye your selues haue seene it, why then do ye thus vanishe in vanitie?

  • 33 Then shal the slymie valley be sweet vnto him, all men also must folowe him, as there are innumerable gone before him.

  • Job 21:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 Iob aunswered, and saide:

    2 O heare diligently my wordes, and that shalbe in steede of your consolations,

  • 18 I woulde haue had comfort against sorowe: but sorowe is come vpon me, and heauinesse vexeth my heart.

  • 25 Is it not so? Who will then reproue me as a lyer, and say that my wordes are nothing worth? Bildad proueth that no man is cleane nor without sinne before God.

  • 28 And therfore be content, & loke now vpon me, and I will not lye before your face.

  • 3 Shoulde thy lies make men holde their peace, and when thou mockest others shall no man make thee ashamed?

  • 22 Seeing that with your lyes you discomfort the heart of the righteous, who I haue not discomforted: Againe, forsomuche as ye encourage the hande of the wicked, so that he may not turne from his wicked way in promising hym life:

  • 21 That I might make thee knowe the trueth, that thou with the veritie mightest aunswere them that sende vnto thee?

  • 3 Doest thou open thyne eyes vpon such one, and bringest me into thy iudgement?

  • 28 For ye say where is the princes palace? and where is the dwelling of the vngodly?

  • 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thyne enemie?

  • 4 Therefore wyll I geue aunswere vnto thee, aud to thy companions with thee.

  • 4 Is it for mans sake that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, shoulde not my spirite then be in sore trouble?

  • 8 But take heede, ye trust in lying tales, that beguile you and do you no good.

  • Job 16:5-6
    2 verses
    68%

    5 I shoulde comfort you with my mouth, & releasse your paine with the talking of my lippes.

    6 For all my wordes my sorowe wyll not ceasse: And though I holde my tongue, what am I eased?

  • Job 19:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1 Iob aunswered, and saide:

    2 How long wyll ye vexe my soule, and trouble me with wordes?

  • 20 Are not my dayes fewe? Let him then leaue of fro me, and let me a lone, that I may comfort my selfe a litle,

  • 2 Froward men are with me, and myne eye must continue in the bitternesse of them.

  • 10 Then shoulde I haue some comfort, yea I woulde desire him in my payne that he would not spare, for I wil not be against the wordes of the holy one.

  • 4 As for you, ye are workmaisters of lyes, and vnprofitable phisitians altogether.

  • 21 They heare my mournyng, but there is none that wyll comfort me: All myne enemies haue hearde of my trouble, and are glad therof because thou hast done it: and thou hast brought foorth the time which thou calledst, when they also shal be lyke vnto me.

  • 20 Reproofe hath broke my heart a peeces, I am full of heauinesse: I loked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none, and for some that shoulde comfort me, but I coulde fynde none.

  • 1 Iob aunswered, and sayde:

  • 15 Where is then now my hope? or who hath considered the thing that I loke for?

  • 16 Therfore do I weepe, and mine eyes gushe out of water: for the comfort that shoulde quicken me is farre fro me, my children are driuen away: for why? the enemie hath gotten the vpper hande.

  • 15 Beholde, these men say vnto me, where is the worde of the Lorde? let it come nowe.

  • 22 Then call, and I wyll aunswere: or let me speake, and geue me then an aunswere.

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    2 O ye sonnes of men, how long wyll ye go about to bryng my glory to confusion? ye loue vanitie, ye seeke after lyes. Selah.

  • 4 Knowest thou not this of olde, and since God plaged man vpon earth,

  • 1 Iob aunswered, & said:

  • 29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vayne?

  • 3 Where is the counsayle that thou shouldest geue him which hath no wisdome? Hast thou shewed the way of right lyuing?

  • 19 Both these thinges are happened vnto thee, but who is sory for it? yea destruction, wastyng, hunger, and sworde, but who wyll comfort thee?

  • 12 Yea when I had diligently pondred what ye sayde, I found not one of you that made any good argument against Iob, that directly could make aunswere vnto his wordes,

  • 5 But if ye wyll aduaunce your selues against me, and rebuke me for the shame that is come vpon me:

  • 28 But ye saide, why is he persecuted? and there was a deepe matter in me.

  • 14 When God will sit in iudgement, what shall I do? & when he will visite me, what aunswere shal I geue him?

  • 1 So Iob aunswered, & saide:

  • 29 Whiles they see vnto thee vanitie, and deuine a lye vnto thee, to put thee with the neckes of the wicked that be slayne, whose day is come when their iniquitie shall haue an ende.

  • 6 Was not thy feare according to thy hope? and the perfectnesse of thy wayes according to thy expectation?