Job 21:34

How then will ye comfort me with vanity? and of your answers there remaineth only deception.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

33Sweet are to him the clods of the valley; and after him succeedeth every man, as those that were before him are without number.

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Cross References

Job 13:12The things you remember are mere proverbs of ashes, your high-places are high-places of clay.

Job 32:3And against his three friends was his wrath kindled; because they had found no answer, and yet 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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