Job 21:34

Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

33The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.

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Cross References

Job 13:12Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.

Job 32:3And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.

Matthew Henry on Job 21:28-34

Punishment of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. 28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? 29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, 30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. 31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? 32 Yet shall he be… Read the whole commentary →

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