Job 21:34


“How then can you vainly comfort me with empty words,
Since your answers remain untrue?”

Job 16:2


“I have heard many such things;
Wearisome and miserable comforters are you all.

Job 13:4


“But you smear me with lies [you defame my character most untruthfully];
You are all worthless physicians and have no remedy to offer.

Job 32:3

Elihu’s anger burned against Job’s three friends because they had found no answer [and were unable to determine Job’s error], and yet they had condemned Job and declared him to be in the wrong [and responsible for his own afflictions].

Job 42:7

It came about that after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Comfort

General references

Bible References

Comfort

Job 16:2

“I have heard many such things;
Wearisome and miserable comforters are you all.

Seeing

Job 13:4

“But you smear me with lies [you defame my character most untruthfully];
You are all worthless physicians and have no remedy to offer.
Job 32:3
Elihu’s anger burned against Job’s three friends because they had found no answer [and were unable to determine Job’s error], and yet they had condemned Job and declared him to be in the wrong [and responsible for his own afflictions].
Job 42:7
It came about that after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.

General references

Deuteronomy 21:7
and they shall respond, and say, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.