Job 21:34

KJV1611 – Modern English

How then can you comfort me with empty words, seeing in your answers there lies falsehood?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 16:2 : 2 I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
  • Job 32:3 : 3 Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
  • Job 42:7 : 7 And it was so, after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My anger is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.
  • Job 13:4 : 4 But you are forgers of lies, you are all worthless physicians.

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  • Job 16:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1 Then Job answered and said,

    2 I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.

    3 Will vain words ever end? Or what makes you bold enough to answer?

  • Job 15:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 Are the consolations of God small with you? Is there any secret thing with you?

    12 Why does your heart carry you away, and what do your eyes wink at,

  • 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? will you be altogether to me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

  • 12 Behold, you yourselves have seen it; why then are you altogether vain?

  • 33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him; everyone shall follow him, as countless before him.

  • Job 21:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 But Job answered and said,

    2 Listen carefully to my speech, and let this be your comfort.

  • 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

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

  • 28 Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident to you if I lie.

  • 3 Should your lies silence men? And when you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

  • 22 Because with lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, so he should not turn from his wicked way, by promising him life.

  • 21 That I might make you know the certainty of the words of truth, that you may answer the words of truth to those who send to you?

  • 3 And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

  • 28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? And where are the dwelling places of the wicked?'

  • 24 Why do you hide your face, and hold me as your enemy?

  • 4 I will answer you, and your companions with you.

  • 4 As for me, is my complaint to a man? And if it were, why should my spirit not be troubled?

  • 8 Behold, you trust in deceptive words that cannot profit.

  • Job 16:5-6
    2 verses
    68%

    5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips would ease your grief.

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

  • Job 19:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1 Then Job answered and said,

    2 How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?

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

  • 2 Are there not mockers with me? And does not my eye continue in their provocation?

  • 10 Then I should still have comfort; yes, I would harden myself in sorrow. Let him not spare, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

  • 4 But you are forgers of lies, you are all worthless physicians.

  • 21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have promised, and they shall be like me.

  • 20 Reproach has 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.

  • 1 But Job answered and said,

  • 15 And where now is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

  • 16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

  • 15 Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now.

  • 22 Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.

  • 67%

    2 O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? How long will you love vanity, and seek after lies? Selah.

  • 4 Do you not know this of old, since man was placed on earth,

  • 1 Then Job answered and said,

  • 29 If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?

  • 3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom? And how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?

  • 19 These two things have come upon you; who shall feel sorry for you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort you?

  • 12 Yes, I paid attention to you, and behold, there was none of you who convinced Job or who answered his words.

  • 5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me and plead against me my reproach,

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

  • 14 What then shall I do when God rises up? When He visits, what shall I answer Him?

  • 1 And Job answered and said,

  • 29 While they see vanity to you, while they divine a lie to you, to bring you upon the necks of the slain, of the wicked, whose day is come, when their iniquity shall have an end.

  • 6 Is not this your fear, your confidence, your hope, and the integrity of your ways?