Job 21:34

How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth?

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

33He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him. Acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus... The Hebrew word, which St. Jerome has here rendered by the name Cocytus, (which the poets represent as a river in hell,) signifies a valley or a torrent: and in this place, is taken for the low region of death and hell: which willingly, as it were, receives the wicked at their death: who are ushered in by innumerable others that have gone before them; and are followed by multitudes above number.

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Cross References

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

Job 32:3And he was angry with his friends, because they had not found a reasonable answer, but only had 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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