Job 21:34
“So how can you console me by talking nonsense? Every reply that you make is full of lies!”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
In Context
Cross References
Job 13:12The things that you say that you think are wise are as useless as [MET] as ashes; what you say to defend your opinions is no better than [MET] clay that quickly crumbles.
Job 32:3He was also angry with Job’s three friends, because they had declared that Job must have done many things that were wrong, but they were unable to convince Job that what they said was true. As a result, it seemed to Elihu that God did what was wrong by punishing 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 →