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Job 21:34

How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

KJV

Quomodo igitur consolamini me frustra, cum responsio vestra repugnare ostensa sit veritati ?

Vulgate

πῶς δὲ παρακαλεῖτέ με κενά; τὸ δὲ ἐμὲ καταπαύσασθαι ἀφ’ ὑμῶν οὐδέν.

LXX

How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?

ASV

וְ֭/אֵיךְ תְּנַחֲמ֣וּ/נִי הָ֑בֶל וּ֝/תְשֽׁוּבֹתֵי/כֶ֗ם נִשְׁאַר מָֽעַל

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵ֚יךְ
'yk
particle · 82×
הִשְׁאִֽיר
hsh'yr
verb · 133×
הָֽבֶל
hbl
noun · 73×
ם
m
noun · 27×
נִי
ny
verb · 108×
תְשׁוּבַ֣ת
tshvbt
noun · 8×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Job 13:4 — But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
  • Job 16:2 — I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
  • Job 32:3 — Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.