Parallel Verses
King James Version
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
New American Standard Bible
For your answers remain full of
Holman Bible
Your answers are deceptive.
International Standard Version
How then, can you console me so worthlessly? What is left of your answers is treachery."
A Conservative Version
How then ye comfort me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?
American Standard Version
How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?
Amplified
“How then can you vainly comfort me with empty words,
Since your answers remain untrue?”
Bible in Basic English
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?
Darby Translation
How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious.
Julia Smith Translation
And how will ye comfort me in vain, and your answers remained treachery?
King James 2000
How then do you comfort me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?
Lexham Expanded Bible
So how will you comfort me [with] emptiness, when fraud is left [in] your answers?"
Modern King James verseion
How then do you comfort me in vain? Yea, in your answers remains transgression.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
How vain, then, is the comfort that ye give me? Are not your answers clean contrary to right and truth?"
NET Bible
So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!"
New Heart English Bible
So how can you comfort me with nonsense, seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?"
The Emphasized Bible
How then should ye comfort me with vanity, since, as for your replies, there lurketh, in them treachery?
Webster
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
World English Bible
So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?"
Youngs Literal Translation
And how do ye comfort me with vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 21:34
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar
33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him. 34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
Phrases
Cross References
Job 16:2
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Job 13:4
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Job 32:3
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Job 42:7
And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.