New Living Translation
Job 21:34
34“How can your empty clichés comfort me? All your explanations are lies!”
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!”
- English Standard Version (ESV)How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing 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?”
Context of Job 21:34
32When they are carried to the grave, an honor guard keeps watch at their tomb. 33A great funeral procession goes to the cemetery. Many pay their respects as the body is laid to rest, and the earth gives sweet repose. “How can your empty clichés comfort me? All your explanations are lies!”
Read all of Job 21Job 21:34 word by word
וְ֭אֵיךְ תְּנַחֲמ֣וּנִי הָ֑בֶל וּ֝תְשֽׁוּבֹתֵיכֶ֗ם נִשְׁאַר־מָֽעַל׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 21:34
- Job 16:2“I have heard all this before. What miserable comforters you are!
- Job 13:4As for you, you smear me with lies. As physicians, you are worthless quacks.
- Job 32:3He was also angry with Job’s three friends, for they made God appear to be wrong by their inability to answer Job’s arguments.
- Job 42:7After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken accurately about me, 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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