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Job 21:34

Job 21:34 is verse 34 of Job chapter 21, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”

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King James Version

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

World English Bible

So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

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Job 21:32–34 · Berean Standard Bible

32 He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.

33 The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

34 So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 16:2

“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

Job 13:4

You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.

Job 32:3

and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.

Job 42:7

After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.

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