English Standard Version
Job 21:34
34How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood."
Job 21:34 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
- New International Version (NIV)“So how can you console me with your nonsense? Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”
- New King James Version (NKJV)How then can you comfort me with empty words, Since falsehood remains in your answers?”
- New Living Translation (NLT)“How can your empty clichés comfort me? All your explanations are lies!”
Context of Job 21:34
32When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb. 33The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable. How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood."
Read all of Job 21Job 21:34 word by word
וְ֭אֵיךְ תְּנַחֲמ֣וּנִי הָ֑בֶל וּ֝תְשֽׁוּבֹתֵיכֶ֗ם נִשְׁאַר־מָֽעַל׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 21:34
- Job 16:2"I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
- Job 13:4As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.
- Job 32:3He burned with anger also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.
- Job 42:7After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: "My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.
Commentaries on Job 21:34
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 34How then comfort ye me in vain - Mr. Good translates: "How vainly then would ye make me retract!" See the note on Job 21:2. I cannot retract any thing I have said, as I have proved by fact and testimony that your positions are false and unfounded. Your pretensions to comfort me are as hollow as the arguments you bring in support of your exceptionable doctrines. This chapter may be called Job's triumph over the insinuated calumnies, and specious but false…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 34How then comfort ye me in vain - That is, how can you be qualified to give me consolation in my trials, who have such erroneous views of the government and dealings of God? True consolation could be founded only on correct views of the divine government; but such views, Job says, they had not. With their conceptions of the divine administration, they could not administer to him any real consolation. We may learn hence, (1) That all real consolation in…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 27-34Verses 27-34 Job opposes the opinion of his friends, That the wicked are sure to fall into visible and remarkable ruin, and none but the wicked; upon which principle they condemned Job as wicked. Turn to whom you will, you will find that the punishment of sinners is designed more for the other world than for this, Jude 1:14, 15. The sinner is here supposed to live in a great deal of power. The sinner shall have a splendid funeral: a poor thing for any man…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 34They told lies about Job and God (13:4; 42:7).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3434. falsehood--literally, "transgression." Your boasted "consolations" (Job 15:11) are contradicted by facts ("vain"); they therefore only betray your evil intent ("wickedness") against me.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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