Job 21:34
So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?"
So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?"
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1 Then Job answered,
2 "I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
12 Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,
18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
12 Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
1 Then Job answered,
2 "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
25 If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?"
28 Now therefore be pleased to look at me, for surely I shall not lie to your face.
3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?
22 Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive:
21 To teach you truth, reliable words, to give sound answers to the ones who sent you?
3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'
24 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
4 I will answer you, and your companions with you.
4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?
8 Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.
5 but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
6 "Though I speak, my grief is not subsided. Though I forbear, what am I eased?
1 Then Job answered,
2 "How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
20 Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
10 Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn't spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
4 But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
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 proclaimed, and they shall be like me.
20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
1 Then Job answered,
15 where then 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 who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.
15 Behold, they tell me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now.
22 Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me.
2 You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.
4 Don't you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,
1 Then Job answered,
29 I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
3 How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
19 These two things have happened to you. Who will bemoan you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?
12 Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.
5 If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;
28 If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' because 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 Then Job answered,
29 while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you on the necks of the wicked who are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.
6 Isn't your piety your confidence? Isn't the integrity of your ways your hope?