Job 21:34
So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!”
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Referenced Verses
- Job 16:2 : 2 “I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!
- Job 32:3 : 3 With Job’s three friends he was also angry, because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job guilty.
- Job 42:7 : 7 After the LORD had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite,“My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.
- Job 13:4 : 4 But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians!
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- Job 16:1-33 verses75%
1Job’s Reply to Eliphaz Then Job replied:
2“I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!
3Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?
- Job 15:11-122 verses72%
11Are God’s consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you?
12Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,
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18Why must I continually suffer such painful anguish? Why must I endure the sting of their insults like an incurable wound? Will you let me down when I need you like a brook one goes to for water, but that cannot be relied on?”
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12If you yourselves have all seen this, Why in the world do you continue this meaningless talk?
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33The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.
- Job 21:1-22 verses71%
1Job’s Reply to Zophar Then Job answered:
2“Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you offer me.
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18Then I said,“There is no cure for my grief! I am sick at heart!
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25“If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”
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28Other Explanation“Now then, be good enough to look at me; and I will not lie to your face!
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3Should people remain silent at your idle talk, and should no one rebuke you when you mock?
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22This is because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies(although I have not grieved him), and because you have encouraged the wicked person not to turn from his evil conduct and preserve his life.
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21to show you true and reliable words, so that you may give accurate answers to those who sent you?
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3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
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28For you say,‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?’
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24Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?
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4I will reply to you, and to your friends with you.
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4Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?
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8“‘But just look at you! You are putting your confidence in a false belief that will not deliver you.
- Job 16:5-62 verses68%
5But I would strengthen you with my words; comfort from my lips would bring you relief.
6Abandonment by God and Man“But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking– how much of it goes away?
- Job 19:1-22 verses68%
1Job’s Reply to Bildad Then Job answered:
2“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
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20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
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2Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
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10Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
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4But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians!
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21ש(Sin/Shin) They have heard that I groan, yet there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have brought it about. Bring about the day of judgment that you promised so that they may end up like me!
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20Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.
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1Job’s Reply to Bildad Then Job replied:
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15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?
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16ע(Ayin) I weep because of these things; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one in sight who can comfort me or encourage me. My children are desolated because an enemy has prevailed.
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15Look at what they are saying to me,“Where are the events in the LORD’s message? Let’s see them happen, please!”
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22Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you respond to me.
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2You men, how long will you try to turn my honor into shame? How long will you love what is worthless and search for what is deceptive?(Selah)
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4“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,
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1Job’s Reply to Eliphaz Then Job answered:
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29If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?
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3How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your insight!
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19These double disasters confronted you. But who feels sorry for you? Destruction and devastation, famine and sword. But who consoles you?
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12Now I was paying you close attention, yet there was no one proving Job wrong, not one of you was answering his statements!
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5If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and plead my disgrace against me,
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28If you say,‘How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!’
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14then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?
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1Job’s Reply to Zophar Then Job answered:
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29while seeing false visions for you and reading lying omens for you– to place that sword on the necks of the profane wicked, whose day has come, the time of final punishment.
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6Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?