Job 21:34

Therefore, how long will you console me in vain, when your answer is shown to be repugnant to truth?

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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

33He has been found acceptable to the banks of the River of Lamentation, and he will draw any man towards him, and there are countless before him.

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Cross References

Job 13:12Your remembrance will be compared to ashes, and your necks will be reduced to clay.

Job 32:3Moreover, he was indignant with his friends because they had not found a reasonable response, except in so far as they condemned Job.

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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